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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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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

Invoke the DB2 call-out scripts (COS) for ALL First Occurrence Data Collection (FODC) events

Currently the DB2 call-out scripts (COS) will not be invoked for all ALL First Occurrence Data Collection (FODC) events. For instance the only time that FODC_AppErr% events will invoke the db2cos script is when the condition happens on a sub-agent...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Change OBDRX2AC Tracking From OBD Level To TS Partition Level

Currently after an ALTER ADD COLUMN has been executed on a partitioned TS , all subsequent reorgs go through the compression cycle until all partitions have been reorged within the same modify recovery range. For very large TSs with many partition...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

json format of lsb.acct log file

It will help with using Splunk for searching and analysis usage of HPC.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Have to flip back and forth between Flow Designer and the Desktop Client

We are wondering if there is a patch already for this or if we can request an enhancement for something we see when using Flow Designer. Because we are building jobs in flow designer and using the Hierarchical stage, which can only be used in Flow...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 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

Import User Group Assignments from CAM into TM1 on Demand

After I invite a block of user in PA they show up in BI security and I can assign them to groups. Problem is that the group assignments do not show up in the TM1 Group security Table, until AFTER they login. It is confusing enough to confirm corre...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 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

LDAP Object Filter in Cognos Connection / Administration

We have a very flat LDAP structure, with 500.000 Users in one OU. Everytime I want to add/ remove users in Cognos Connections / Administration, all 500.000 Users were parsed which leads to timeouts or extremly long waiting periods. We need the pos...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration