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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.

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Current authorization session variable

We would like to have a session variable that would identify the current authorization in use by a connection. By "current authorization", I would like it to identify the package owner of the package being executed for static sql or dynamic sql us...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

in DB2 v.11 env. question on use of httpgetblobfile

Problem description and business impact customer in z/os v2.2 and db2 v.11 have a question on function httpgetblobfile: the function (db2xml.httpgetblobfile but also db2xml.httpgetclobfile) has in input a varchar with the url and a clob with the h...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Backout also if system errors occours using 'load resume yes backout yes'

Load resume yes backout yes should perform the backout process also when some system error occurs (ie.: space constraints on utility datasets), primarily in case of DISCARDS 1 specification.With this choice the customer wish to prefer the preserva...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Informix HTML datatype support across distributed queries

The type of HTML is not widely supported by other APIs other than WebDatablade. Therefore, when a query is made within a distributed query system, where user is inside database db1, and query with html column is made for database db2, below error ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

To be able to kill a specific process from a job

Hello, Sometimes, a job is completely stucked due to a specific process. Customer doesn't want to kill the whole job because he is waiting for the result of job. Would it possible to add the ability to kill a specific process from a job without ki...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Users can log on Cognos Analytics based on different roles

We want to have a situation that a user when he logs on to to Cognos Analytics he gets a selection what role he want to use, if he has multiple roles (analytics user, analytics explorer, etc.)
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications: we have the cognos application hosted on a linux oplatform. Due to this situation, we cannot use the dynamic masking as configured in MS SQL Server 2016. We do not want t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Run on a specific field from SAP BW with more than a million cells shows No data instead of generating error

Cognos Report Run on a specific field from SAP BW with more than a million cells shows No data instead of generating error message. please refer case number for more details. TS001613965
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to be able to import common Cobol Copy book format

System: BigIntegrateActor: User needing enhancement to existing feature Nationwide is moving processing from mainframe to hdfs for analytics. There are hundreds of COBOL copybooks describing the metadata of the sources and targets, and there is mu...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to add support for alter table without going on need for reorg immediately and allow full access (read,write,alter...etc)

After setting compatibility vector to ORA, we expect alter table to not affect read/write access. In our test, we see that after dropping even a single column, table goes in reorg_pending = Y status and we can not use reorg inplace to continue ins...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration