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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Two www-Authenticate HTTP headers instead of one comma separated header

In Mixed Security Mode (IntegratedSecurityMode3), TM1 sends this WWW-Authenticate header: WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate, Basic realm="TM1" According to RFC 9110 Section 11.6.1-6 , it is valid to specify multiple methods in one WWW-Authenticate heade...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Apply security restriction in Db2 table only via database connector tools (but not from database objects)

There are few use cases where Db2 table access must be restricted only from DB connector tools(eg; SPUFI, QMF or DSE in IDz or any other DB visualizer) but not from the database object itself. To explain further, we do have home grown tools(x1) us...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Time frequency missing while Scheduling Jobs - hourly timestamp missing in Cognos Controller

The client would like to reduce the monthly closing process step where they order Consolidation By status jobs on batch. The client would like to run Consolidation By Status in Batch on an hourly basis. For that the client will need to manually or...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Implement CREATE OR REPLACE option for triggers/views/synonyms/row types

Since a similar option for stored procedures is available starting with version 14.10 it would be handy if this syntax could also be introduced for triggers, views, synonyms and row types. Currently you first have to drop a trigger/view/synonym or...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Allow specification of Authid under which Federated Tables References are created

DBAs in our organisation gain SYSADM authority via a secondary authid (a RACF Group), and it is that authority that we expect to use when administering the IDAA. However when using internal Db2 security the Create Rference stored procedure to crea...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Password Protection required for excel output generated from cognos.

We have the requirement that the excel output that is generated from cognos should have a password protection or alternativelt it shoukd be non-editable for the user.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ODBCUpdate function needed

On the recent versions of cplex we have functions like ODBCRead and ODBCPublish for data management on Data bases engines, but it is also necessary to have a function like ODBCUpdate which corresponds to the old one DBUpdate function which allows ...
over 2 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

make FS/Db2 generate some good remote execution plans against big Mongo collections

Problem statement/pain points - refer to what elaborated in TS012101437 for details *for multi-way joins (>2), FS/Db2 currently always generate bad remote SQL execution plans involving full scan of some large collections w/ no filters pushed do...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Future consideration

Versioning of large files in Git

In the insurance industry, large datasets such as models that were created and trained, and graphics, are required by different processes. However, Cloud Pak for Data currently does not support Git Large File Storage (LFS). Supporting Git LFS will...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Do not display deleted reports in the "Recent Items" list.

Deleted reports should not be listed in the "Recent Items" list.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration