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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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New Db2 REST Service Discovery Authority

Since a security loophole was closed it is now only possible to discover REST services via the Db2 supplied Db2ServiceManager API that the user has authority to execute. We feel this goes against the open API economy that we are currently in, wher...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide the option to exclude SELECT statements from db2audit when collecting DML data

The painful and expensive IBM recommended workaround that ended up not being feasible was to create event monitors (multiple so that records can be cleared) with WLM. However, the volume and format of output generated by the event monitors is diss...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add a Feature to Replicate Microseconds Portion of Timestamp

We use IIDR CDC on z/OS for replication using DB2 data on z/OS as the source and a flat file on a non-z/OS platform as the target. We have encountered a situation where the microseconds portion of the timestamp value on a DB2 z/OS table is not ret...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Add ALTER COLUMN options to modify numeric column length and allow rename column names for ((bi)temporal) column organized tables

Db2’s capabilities to perform schema changes on any form of ((bi)temporal) column organized tables lacks behind it’s row organized counterparts. This prevents effective database schema evolution and therefore limits the use of column organized tab...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Alter-support for global variables

With DB2 V11 global variables were introduced, but unfortunately no alter-option to change the default. This would be especially beneficial it this enhancement would also include the system-provided global variables. With this enhancement each cus...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Getting rid of "You have unsaved work" dialog box is not intuitive

It isn't intuitive that, in order to get of "You have unsaved work" dialog when editing the report, the user needs to click "Cancel" and then "Edit" button.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Downgrade or remove Warning messages like "IBM InfoSphere Data Replication adjusted the source data image to fit into the target column "

All IDAA messages are presented in the z/OS system log as DSNX881I messages. These messages have a Message ID & Severity. Many also have an embedded CHCxxxxxx message id. However, many messages get reported under Message ID 20, and these can b...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Default open in Powerplay

In Cognos 11.0.12 Powerplay "reports / cubes" are being opened as PDF and not with Powerplay.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FTM Configurable JDBC Provider for Shutdown Node

This is in regards to PMR 70668,L6Q,000 about Shutdown Node using JDBC Provider "'FTMJDBCProvider'". The name of the JDBC Provider configurable service used by FTM is fixed at 'FTMJDBCProvider' and is not configurable. We want this name to be conf...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

MT7xx / free text fields

MER facility:when (manually creating) an MT7xx is it often the case that text for free text fields are copied from several sourcen (because of contracts, etc).by doing so (copying from a source and pasting) MERVA automatically frowarded the exceed...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration