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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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Generate Encrypted Password During Silent Install of Web Tier/Gateway

For Linux, to install only the gateway on our webserver, we need to use a silent connect and install (cannot use GUI and will automate installation later). For a gateway only install, the installvariables.properties state that the encrypted passwo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Having counter the number of query failbacks

If a query failbacks to Db2 for z/OS, users would like count the number of failbacks and possibly the SQL Text itself. Today, SQL Query Monitors running for Db2 for z/OS can not differentiate the executed SQL's origin. For instance (1) SQL can be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Being able to collect attached file in chat conversation

Hi, It would be great if we could collect a file during a conversation (even small file like word document) Example 1: - A user connect to the chat and want to apply for a job offer after vewing all the current opportunities, he entrer his n...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Access LOB data when using the WQLS list for IFCID 0306

The WQLS list allows the IFI READS 306 interface to limit the log records returned into the I306 buffer to just the DB and PS table ID combinations found in the WQLS list. Unfortunately, if you have tables that contain LOB columns you cannot retur...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Using 64-bit common storage with IFI READS 306 (IFCID 0306)

When reading log records using IFI READS 306 we now have the capability of specifying a 64-bit pointer to common storage. The dsnwlir function call requires five parameters. The second parameter is an IFCA pointer and we must set the IFCAFLGS valu...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide an easy way to de-allocate the underlying Linear dataset when needed without dropping and recreating table spaces and index spaces.

Component: DDL? Data Definition Language? There are cases when a table has change its usage and may remain empty for a very long time or not use anymore but still required to be defined in Db2. In this case, it would be good to have a better way o...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expand the scope of the RENAME DDL.

Moving forward with self-provisioning for developers, adherence to the company's naming standards and rules may be a necessity. The RENAME command should apply to table spaces, table schema, table, index, triggers, views, constraints, etc. This wa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Better preserve formatting information in Endpoint Language Translator

We are building a chatbot with Watson Assistant and would like to integrate the translation service. Technically it works, but we loose many formatting informations while translating (DE to EN or DE to FR). We tried the endpoint document translati...
over 5 years ago in Language Translator (Archived Jan 24 2024) 0 Not under consideration

Trash BIN

If the book is deleted its gone forever right now and there is no way to restore it, it would be great to have the ability to restore deleted books.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration