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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 another counter to indicate that access was allowed due to install SYSADM authority rather than modifying the existing PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE counter behavior

If Installation SYSADM is used for EXECUTE authority on a package, the entry is not cached in the CACHEPAC area. However, the PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE count will be incremented even though the Installation SYSADM ID is not being cached in the CACHEPA...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Governance Artifacts search in WKC Categories should include Governance Artifakts from Subcategories

Consider the following Example: There is a Category "Driving Vehicles" with 2 subcategories (at the same level): "Automobile" and "Bicycle". Furthermore there is a Business Term "VW Beetle", categorized as "Automobile". Currently, within the secti...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Consistent filepath specification in Turbo Integrator

Currently, Planning Analytics Cloud is inconsitent with how file paths are specified. It requires the Fully Qualified path in the Data Source Name field, a relative path in the Data Source Name On Server, and a Mapped Drive specification in Prolog...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...)

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...) - It would be very usefull to select records that were just merged. The same way like with DELETE / UPDATE and INSTERT: SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (DELETE / UPDATE / INSERT)
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000) in Cognos Analytics

Customer would like to increase network packet size to Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000), but, there doesn't seem to be any information relating to how this would impact Cognos. From a Cognos applications perspective, this should not have any impact.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

identify special columns with same meaning easily and modify data type

Use case: We want find columns with same meaning distributed over several tables easily either to modify the data type or find out the affected columns/tables only. For example there are price/money and other columns, each with an arbitrary column...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Security on Log Reports

One is unable to apply security on the Log Reports. Although a user may be restricted and have specific have rights to certain entities, the same user can open a Data Load Log Report for all entities and therefore gain access to privileged data.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add Additional "stats" Table Metrics

For operations and KPI management, having some additional metrics in the various stats tables is important. For our use here, it would be helpful to have the following metrics: Pend Time Metrics: (eligible based upon job class not LSF setting)* av...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration