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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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Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

prohibit alter/create tablespace not logged

Performing create/alter tablespace to be not logged might be considered a security problem.A solution for this can be a new ZPARM or a special privilege (in RACF & Db2) that will prohibit anyone from doing so, even SYSADM/DBADM etc. Another "c...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit Policy enhancement for Global Temporary Tables

Audit policies are used frequently for us to track for a month the Group IDs read, write, etc of standard Tables of Type P,C,T. We would like be able to use this ability to Audit use of created Global Temporary Tables of Type G as well. This would...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unable to lock GA company (Group Journals)

User is still able to pass group journals in GA company although the status has been changed to "READY"
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Modify Data Sources, but Not Create New Ones

We have permissions and capabilities configured so that users are able to change their own signon passwords and refresh their own schemas. This supports us significantly in our efforts to allow self service for our users. The users with this abili...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Export to Excel - Customize Workbook Name

Exporting a view from a paw book to excel will default to the view name used to create the report, however there are many times which a user will start with a different report as their basis for creating a new PAW book. Since the view that was use...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM DataStage 11.7 support MS SQL Server 2022

As MS SQL Server 2022 is expected to be released in mid 2022, when will IBM DataStage 11.7 support MS SQL Server 2022 ?
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Accessing PAW books from Planning Analytics Excel(PAX)

Accessing PAW books from Planning Analytics Excel(PAX)
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Run the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can connect to spark from reporting tools

It would be great if Spark as a Service ran the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can can connect to spark from reporting tools.
about 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Not under consideration

Allow schedule of specific days of months

Sometimes a report needs to run on specific days of each month that are not necessarily daily, weekly etc. It would be handy to have the ability to select specific days (such as the 18-22 or the 18th, 20th and 25th).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration