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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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Permission on (specific) query based on user role, user group or user

It should be possible to restrict a query or a group of queries within a mandator to specific user roles, user groups (for cases) or even specific users (e.g. private queries). Currently every user that has the "view query" permission sees and can...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Restrict Access to Directory Search of Cognos Namespace

User chooses to run report in the background and selects email delivery option. The report author can then email a report with sensitive data to an entire Cognos namespace group like Consumers. Current work around forces us to shut off Report Sche...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

watsonx.ai to allow the clients to retrain or build their foundational models on IBM HPC (VELA)

Our customer participated in watsonx.ai early adoption program, and has raised critical points required for Enterprise consumption of foundational models. They want to build and retrain the foundational models in watsonx.ai hosted on IBM HPC compu...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Masking function with GRANT per column

Column masking has been great help in managing sensitive data and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).But today’s solution to know if a user has access to data without masking is to create a Mask using a CASE with SESSION_...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Support Session Scheduler Memory Limits with CGROUP v2

The current Session Scheduler in LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 14 does not support having memory limits when using CGROUP v2. Please enhance it to do so.
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Dropdata(-dropdata) Support for backup

In netezza, we have a good backup performance indicator in '-dropdata' option, which indicates how fast we can backup, without writing to filesystem. Having such performance indicator in Concerto will help to isolate issues for backup performance ...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

License report does not consider removed users

We currently have the following scenario. The standard Manage > License feature is reporting user licenses. Users removed from AD are removed from the output after running a consistency check task. So far so good.. We have users that can no lon...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Leverage Reference Data Sets in DQ Rules

When reference data sets have been uploaded into / created in WKC allow them to be used in the DQ rules logic.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Improving CHECK utility performance: elapsed time and CPU

On our site, we have a PBG tablespace that, after loading, has the last partition in CHECK PENDING, the other partitions in RW. The IBM CHECK utility has taken a long time to complete the verification. We tried using the SCOPE PENDING parameter, b...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration