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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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Password encryption on QMF Server and Data Virtualization Manager and the JDBC driver.

Royal Bank of Canada and likely other customers have the following need. With DVM and the QMF Server and the JDBC Gateway the credential management system of Globals and the AVZDRATH job will be a security\auditing issue. 1) If the users are mappe...
about 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make TSA start DB2 under system.slice, in order to gracefully stop/takeover databases on shutdowns/reboots.

Since init was replaced by systemd as the linux main process (in 2014 !), it makes huge difference the way DB2 is started. At server shutdown or reboot, the user processes are all killed, and only then systemd starts to stop the services. This beh...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Delivered

Improve performance of writing data to Scenario DB

As per our analysis DOC uses JDBC "batch insert" method when writing data to Scenario Database. A much faster method would be "multiple row insert", which can also be done with JDBC. The following link shows how to do it in Java. The author measur...
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

How to customize summary information in dashboard

I have created a country wise crosstab dashboard with 2 measure values where one measure value is picking up the maximum value on database for considering at month level (for eg: if there are 100 rows of data for a column in particular month is av...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Auto-complete filter for TI Processes in Process Editor

When using the executeprocess() function in the workbench, the auto-complete feature correctly creates the required arguments. When in the first argument, where the process needs to be specified, the auto-complete shows the entire list of availabl...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Job Step ODBC Data Source with SQL Query

In SPSS Deployment Manager, I have a Job with a Job Step, where the "Mode" of one of the ODBC Data Sources in the underlying SPSS Modeler Stream was recently changed from "Table" to "SQL Query".After refreshing the job step to use the version of t...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Is a defect

Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provision summary report on data archival processing

An enhancement or a new menu is needed in Optim to generate and show a report on archival and deletion processing summary so far OR based on some filters. Below is the business case. Requirement : Customers have been using the Optim based ar...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

PAX Action Button Refresh - Execute Calculation Options before display Success/Failure Message

In Perspectives once an action button runs a TurboIntegrator process, the "Calculations" section under Options is applied first then the success/failure messages are displayed. This allows the developer to have custom success/failure messages whic...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow ability to remove "Capture point for mirroring"

In our environment we have separate subscriptions for "Refresh" vs "Continuous Mirroring". It can be months between refreshes. We do not want to delete the refresh subscriptions as that increases possibility of losing configurations. We also have ...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration