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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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DB2 processes such as db2ckpwd and db2wdog run as root

The DB2 processes such as db2ckpwd and db2wdog run as root, which results in elevated system level access by those processes. Since root access is elevated system level access, a malicious user may gain access to other OS level APIs/processes and ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Not under consideration

Properly support MSSQL in Data Discovery

Bank of Thailand have Oracle, Hive, MSSQL, and SAP as their main source. We are trying to sell WKC to make a catalog out of vast different data sources for them. The problem is Data Discovery can only do "shallow sync" of table from MSSQL. The tab...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

It's not supported to use ASCII and UNICODE tables together (SQL0873N)

Case #000080573 DB2 Z/OS supports multi-codeset objects in one database but LUW does not that. We cannot do JOIN, UNION ALL, or SELECT ~ INSERT between these tables which are all supported in DB2 Z/OS. In addition, DB2 Z/OS has a function like UNI...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Requesting addition of a Sandbox Commit verification prompt

We are on Planning Analytics 2.0.8 on a Windows 2012 R2 server. We have customers coming in through the tm1web. Have customers asking if there is a way to enable a Verify prompt after user clicks the Commit button in a Sandbox and before it actual...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add new parameter for REORG to designate different access behavior when REORG is in LOG/SWITCH phase

Let's say we have zparm IRLMRWT=15, and we have large tablespace REORG with SHRLEVEL(CHANGE) or (REFERENCE), the elapse time of LOG/SWITCH phase is greater than 15 seconds, this causes a lot of online workload timeout with -911. At that time the t...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Master key rotation in HADR is not in transactional sequence even in SYNC mode

IN Encryption at rest - HADR scenario, master key rotation on primary is not getting shipped to standby immediately (relatively) in SYNC mode. Seems it needs explicit ARCHIVE LOG command to rotation key on standby.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

db2iupgrade and db2ckupgrade should work with external security plugin like Centrify

When having a security plugin like Centrify, to authenticate local and AD users, the commands for upgrade do not work, even if explicitly credentials are provided. It is necessary to remove the Centrify configuration, then upgrade, and finally put...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Adding newly added data sources to data modules automatically

We're developing a data collaboration platform. New data sources in various data formats such as CSV, database table or ESRI map will be uploaded to the platform. In this context, data modules should update itself automatically.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Latency Threshold Setting by Duration in ASNMON

Transaction volume is different between business time and non-business time. Different threshold should be set for QCAPTURE_LATENCY, QAPPLY_EELATENCY, QAPPLY_LATENCY, e.g. 08:00 - 21:59, 22:00-07:59, etc.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Report "Pending status" duration of batch/interactive reports in Audit

As per number of (batch/report service) processes and affinity connections set in dispatcher tuning properties, number of parallel reports will be limited. When all configured processes and connections are in use, any new report gets submitted wil...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration