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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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Separate workfile allocation into different latches

Currently, the WACT latch governs all workfile allocation usage. When the customer ran workload failover testing, the WACT latch proved to be a bottleneck. Root cause analysis determined that the bottleneck came from the fact that multiple types o...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add Search Capability on Workflow Instances view

Would like the ability to search on the Name field when on the Workflow Instances view. At times we need to terminate a workflow and there may be thousands of active workflows, so paging through the list attempting to find which object workflow to...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Authorization for ALTER Commands at schema level

Our DBA team receives countless requests to reset sequence values for our developers. This is a tedious task that should be a self-service task for our developers. We need some mechanism to allow our developers the ability to alter these sequences...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add multiple widget connections to one dashboard object

we need to be able to assign to one data object multiple connections not just one like today to be able to setup more complicated interactions similar to gestures in active reports
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DMC - Display Fine Grained Access Control (FGAC) values of Column Masks and Row Permissions for each Table

This would be a useful feature to allow DBAs to not have to leave the DMC tool and use a different tool to verify the FGAC items are in place for various tables in a Database. The DSM tool had a Tab FGAC that would display the FGAC values in place...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Track REORGs with SHRLEVEL NONE

We do not want anyone to run a REORG with SHRLEVEL NONE. If they do we might end up with big problems, especially if it abends or we have to terminate it. We see no reason to use SHRLEVEL NONE with REORG any more unless it is a huge tables that ca...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Adjust the priority of pending reason

If both license lack and limit(SLOTS, JOBS) reach together, the job pending reason shows license reason ONLY, not include limit. We want to adjust the priority of pending reason "limit(SLOTS, JOBS)" related pending reason is requested as high ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Automatic transfer of parametrizations and new versions

Currently, all parametrizations, made in test environment, have to be transferred manually to production (the parametrization has to be repeated). The same is for version transfers. We would like to have a process for automatic transfer. The requi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Extend scriptable interface with methods for determine the type of a prompt control

The scripting interface for custom controls and page modules offers currently (v11.0.11) no documented javacript-method for getting the type of a certain prompt control (e.g. TextPrompt, selectBox etc.).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0

Create an API for IFI reads (306) so Log-Reading Software does NOT need to be APF-Authorized

Like a lot of shops, we replicate a lot of our Enterprise data from our programmatic Db2 for z/OS environment to other Db2s and other off-platform DBMSes for MI and analytics, and for high availability. IIDR now provides the ability to do this via...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration