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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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Add Transaction Application lock types to the DBMS_LOCK package

We understand that there is an implementation of a version of the Oracle DBMS_LOCK package (minus transaction type and various modes) available on Db2 for LUW. While we can make some use of the session application lock type, we also have a need fo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

PAW report URL - possibility to assign alias (instead of using URL)

Deploy a PAW report to production environment without changing the URL of the report? Background: Updates of reports that are created with design features are saved as Chrome favorites by many end users. Deploying the changes with import functiona...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Callbacks from CP for .Net languages like C#

Callbacks are available from CP using C++ or Java, but not if using the API from C# (or any .Net language). This seems to be very strange as the internal structures must be there inside the CP libraries etc in order to support the callbacks from C...
about 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Preserve table creation timestamp after reorg-finsished using admin_move_table procedure (online table move)

Following Knowledge Center, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.perf.doc/doc/c0024850.htmlwe perform table reorg using admin_move_table . The issue is, after run admin_move_table command, the original...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt source code for procedure/function

There are lots of ISV out there looking for security feature where it can encrypt the source code for stored procedure and function(written in SPL).
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Index on RTS versioned History tables

In our environment, we retain the RTS history data for 1 year. Tables are going to grow large due to the busy environment we have.. We would need secondary indexes on these tables. Right now there is none. Since its a years data to analyze the rat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DMC Reports vs DSM Reports in Email

1) DSM we are getting an email with the database report attached through email , which was easy for us to SAVE / download directly without logging into DSM console . 2) DMC we are getting an email with the link to DMC console where we need to clic...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Answer Writer role and tooling

The work of defining a dialog tree is technical, however the the work in writing, editing and reviewing individual answers is better performed by a Writer/Author/Subject Matter Expert. This idea is for the Watson Tooling to add a new screen that l...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 3 Not under consideration

PAW SMTP notifications Password Risk - Make Encrypted Alternative Available

We wish to set up event notifications in PAW for a client. However, they are not willing to proceed with this because the bootstrap files requires SMTP login and password detials available in clear text. This is represents a major security risk. P...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change report package in properties without using Authoring

I would like to be able to change report package in report properties without accessing report authoring in the same way as it was possible in Cognos 10.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration