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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Recover of freed packages

We would like to be able to recover freed packages. One of our clients always performs bind from a temporary library to avoid cluttering. This means it can require some investigation to find the correct DBRMs, especially if a lot of package were f...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Segregating Category Permissions

Cloud Pak for Data 3.5 - On the category level, Owners and Admin have the capability to change other users and their own permission level in a category. As a regulated entity, this is an audit issue. Proposed Solution - Segregate the ability to cr...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Segregating Custom Attribute Creation

Cloud Pak for Data 3.5 - The ability to create Custom Attributes on the Category and Business Term level requiries the entire Administer Platform permissions list including the Manage User permission. As a regulated entity, the Manage User permiss...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Segregating Data Quality Project Elevated Permissions

Cloud Pak for Data 3.5 - The Analyze Data Quality permission also includes the ability to create Data Quality Projects, add and remove users from that project and their associated entitlements, including their own. As a regulated entity, the abili...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

API for skills versions for full CI/CD support

In order to support full CI/CD of our Watson assistant based product, we should have the full ability to deploy a version without any manual UI actions needed. Currently, the API does not support any version control.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0

Support IMS Unload file of Refresh

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Extend currently allow maximum ER replicate count from 65,536 to 262,144 max limit.

We are an ERP based vendor and we maintain more than 2,500 tables per single database. Some of our bigger costomers maintain around 100 such required databases for various activities. We are planning to migrate/upgrade our customer servers with ne...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics support for EBS volume encryption

Cognos Analytics deployed on AWS cloud EC2 instances. The ability to use EBS encryption for data at rest
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Basic Signon for Internal Use Only

We would like to restrict our Cognos Basic Sign-On page to be available to only internal users (ie. restrict this page to only the internal Network). External users should only be able to login via the Single Sign-On page. We are not able to restr...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS ALTER FUNCTION REPLACE for inline SQL scalar and SQL table functions

Create an ALTER FUNCTION REPLACE statement for inline SQL scalar and SQL table functions such as already exists for compiled SQL functions and native SQL procedures. This would give the ability of the user to modify the source code for these funct...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration