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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Data Management Console: Ability to upload own Driver / Wrapper and also specify the class of the driver during the definition of connection to a Db2 database

When a connection to a Db2 database is defined in the Data Management Console, the today it’s predefined driver with server, port, database and enabling of SSL. The customer would prefer to have their own authentication to have the ability to uplo...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Selective decompression of zipped filed

Currently when decompressing/unzipping the zip files in Drive explorer it is not possible to select files to unzip: the whole archive is decompressed. It would be useful to have the option of unzipping a selection of files from the archive.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hide Aggregation Type On Charts

Hi Team, On the cognos dashboard 11.2.4 version, there is a scenario where it is necessary to hide the aggregate type of fields on the charts, which appear as tooltips when you hover over the charts in brackets. The additional data from aggregatio...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Add a field in MON_GET_TABLE function to check whether Restrict on drop is enabled or not for a table

Missing Restrict on Drop clause while creating table can be costly! (DB2LUW) DB2 LUW provides a clause called "Restrict on drop". This clause should be used while creating a table. With Alter statement it can be disabled too. Why missing this clau...
5 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Functionality already exists

PAW Pass Context - option to not pass Set

When you use the PAW button for navigation and select to Pass Context, it not only passes the Selector dimension element but also the set. Is there anyway to only pass the element and not the set? We have PAW pages where the sets are different, bu...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Preview of log/text files without sub-menu navigation in Drive Explorer in PAW

When using the Rich tier, it was easy to be able to review log files simply by opening the text file (via double click) in File Explorer. Now, we have to navigate to a preview via a menu or download the file before opening. It would be great if a ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

#emea #csm #mea Integrate IBM Knowledge Catalog Governance into DataStage Flows

Issue: Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data, data protection rules defined within Watson Knowledge Catalog are not directly applied to DataStage flows, even when governed assets from the catalog are used. This creates confusion and a sense that no...
9 months ago in DataStage 3 Future consideration

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Remove default grants to PUBLIC on SYSIBM tables

An IBM Db2 Security Health Check audit will identify a SELECT privilege held by PUBLIC on the SYSIBM tables as an issue, with specific concern when the privilege is held on the authorization tables (i.e. SYSIBM.SYS%AUTH%). The IBM Db2 Administrati...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists