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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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Allow threads which use the accelerator (IDAA) to go inactive

Today, once a distributed thread has had a query offloaded to IDAA, that thread can never go inactive again. The desired behavior change is to allow distributed threads which utilize the accelerator to follow the same rules for going inactive as a...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

keeping track on changes of SYSACCEL.SYSACCELERATEDTABLES

we would like to have SYSACCEL.SYSACCELERATEDTABLES as system temporal table, adding the user who did the change - so that we can see, who enabled/disabled a table, who removed or added a table (and when)... and who loaded a table (better would be...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change the Identifier of a data source in Data Modules

Each data source used in a data module gets an identifier assigned by the system. This is seen in the properties of the data source. There identifiers are used to define data items in queries when developing reports. They currently are meaningless...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to pre-filter data before dq rule execution

Currently we have a workaround using DataStage flows which is very complicated for end users to do themselves. We here in 2H 2023 there will be something using virtual tables?
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

3rd party software, The Control Machine, runs right before Distribution to assign accumulators. FTM assigns accumulators at ingestion based on DOW/TOD but if UOWs take too long to get thru the system, PNC wants to call Bus Rules to reassign which could include pocket, endpoint, and accumulator

FTM assigns accumulators at ingestion based on DOW/TOD but if UOWs take too long to get thru the system, PNC wants to call Bus Rules to reassign which could include pocket, endpoint, and accumulator
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration

Error to be displayed when saving a rule with feeders but not skipcheck

We recently experienced the following issue: A manual action made the skipcheck code disappear at the top of our code. We saved the rule without receiving any error and then closed it. This change resulted in big performance issues of our service ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Patient Safety when Potential Overlay is Identified Using IBM MDM

Issue: The MDM application leaves a PO record in an entity. This allows a search based off the PO ID or the PO Demographics to return an incorrect patient. Currently the application prevents returning the ID when requested which helps prevent send...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 4 Planned for future release

Allow use of two factor authentication using smart cards for authentication for ODBC

Security requirements make us move to use two factor authentication when accessing Db2 for z/OS. We do have everything set up for the server side by using AT-TLS ServerWithClientAuth configuration for our Db2 for z/OS systems. We can also make Db2...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration