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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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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

Mirror LUW Db2 history file

The RFE is to improve database integrity, backup and recovery. Db2 has a "history file" that tracks things such as backups, rollforward, log archive, etc. The history file exists in the database path (DBPATH) directory. There are two history files...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Display Custom System Use Notification at first Login

CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and IRS (Internal Revenue Service) have similar information technology control requirements based on NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Special Publication 800-53 (Rev. 4) Secur...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Batch interface for SOM and USER statistics

We would like to be able to gather statistics for DVM using a batch interface. We want to establish history in a Adabas file and have a dashboard to see trends etc. The statistics we are interested in are SOM (ISPF 1.18.1 / 2), User stats (CPU, Co...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Support for AIP (Azure Information Protection)

Azure Information Protection (AIP) is a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to discover, classify, and protect documents and emails by applying labels to content. AIP is part of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) solution, and...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add new option to create schema / alter schema

Add new options to create schema / alter schema to specify default tablespaces
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration - Bulk Resubmit via Past Activities

Add ability to flag Failed requests and Past Activities and Resubmit en masse.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

Overlap of Left and right view of a page in SDU training

While tranining the SDU , a page is shown on left side with actual text and right side with boxes placed instead of text and coloured by appropriate fields but initially the color of text all over. In a dense document, it becomes difficult for use...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists