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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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Prevent package invalidation after ALTER TABLE ROTATE

System: Production management databaseActor: Developers maintaining the databaseDescription: Our customer runs a 24/7 production management OLTP system with IMS V10 and DB2 V9 for z/OS on which its transaction rate gets as high as 10 trans/sec, an...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0

SMTP details to configure through cognos portal viewer

Currently, there is no automate way to access SMTP configuration using Cognos portal viewer. We would require IBM to take this request and add options in Cognos portal UI. Or we can either access it using Advance settings parameter would be ease t...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Limit password characters

Our security guidelines for compatibility with multiple different systems state that passwords should include only English characters. (plus special and numerical ones of course) But there is no way to enforce such a limit on the Netezza database ...
3 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

User lock for a few hours after failed log on attempts

For security reasons after multiple failed log in attempts a users account should be blocked for a limited time. Right now the system only allows for permanent lock of account and that is problematic as each unlock needs to be done manually.
3 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Single Sign On using SAML2 for Cognos

SAML2 is becoming an industry standard and many vendors are moving to supporting it. Using SAML2 will provide Cognos with another method for external authentication. SAML2 is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlemen...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow CREATE/REPLACE for users other than owner

Currently on Db2 LUW CREATE OR REPLACE is only allowed for the owner of a database object. CREATE OR REPLACE authorization should be opened up to allow create/replace by anyone who has the ability to drop the object and to create the object with a...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 3 Not under consideration

Improving Insert Performance for LOBs

As mentioned in Case TS004024647 there are some situations where inserts in lob structures do not provide the expected performance. Instead they cause massive CPU consumption in the Coupling Facility for the spacemap search. The problem is excessi...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Tuple and other OLAP functions need to be available in Dashboards

Need for Tuple and other OLAP functions in Dashboards
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Be able to Add new Tab Icons in Dashboards

If you want to have several tabs in a dashobaord, you want to be able to add you own custom icons that matches what you normally use in your business and not only som standard icons. I would like to be able to add new icons under the "Individual t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Host name Control in datastore to prevent reverse DNS lookups

Using Access Server, we have datastores that connect via IP and every time it try’s connect it does a DNS reverse lookup and times out. The datastore accepts IP and hostname, we need a way to stop the DNS reverse lookup for the connection.
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review