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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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Allow specification of Authid under which Federated Tables References are created

DBAs in our organisation gain SYSADM authority via a secondary authid (a RACF Group), and it is that authority that we expect to use when administering the IDAA. However when using internal Db2 security the Create Rference stored procedure to crea...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

The alphanumerical sort order of companies/groups starting with the letter "V" and "W" are mixed instead of separated in the Group status function

Menu Group/Group Status. It would be beneficial if Companies/Groups starting with "V" and "W" are separated and not mixed when sorting by alhpanumerical order in the Group status function. When sorting according to alhpanumerical order I would lik...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Restrict the number of recipients when bursting

Cognos can't restrict the number of recipients when bursting. This is currently addressed by looking at the limits imposed at the SMTP level, or informing Cognos users of this limitation. This helps for short term but if we have a new user who mak...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

AUDIT to track view access

We would like to get a mechanism to AUDIT the access of views. We already use EXECUTE category but at table level. We do not use EXECUTE category at database level because it could impact the database performance. We tested all AUDIT categories ti...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Global cursors in SPL

I would like the ability to define a global statement and global cursor that can be shared between routines within a single session. This would allow for modular code and create tremendous increases in performance and memoory usuage
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Provide a method to forcibly kick users from an instance

If the primary instance or any instance a user is logged into needs to be restarted or shutdown for either maintenance or technical issues this could help provide notification to the logged in users.
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Add Team content and My content to the Tabs Area in Cognos 11.2

In stead of we all need to add an Extension adding Team Content and My content to the Tabs in Cognos 11.2. Could you just add in to the Tabs Recent and Get Started. It is the most used areas and the users must go to the Hamburger Menu to acces Tea...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Create New Locales or re-use/repurpose existing

Currently there are 10 locales (and a 'Reporting Design Language'). International business keep asking about Polish, Thai, Ukrainian, etc when we want to do build outs of modules or onboard a new region. Watson translate has helped with that, but ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Final value of color range to be single number

setting a color range on a integer value, it would be nice if the final value could be just 1 number. for example, we'd like to set colors on a field that contains a total of X. The color is red for 0 to 90, Yellow from 91-99 and green only when i...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Add Abbreviation for REFRESH command in Autonomics Concole

Please add "REF" as an abbreviation for the "REFRESH" command in the Autonomics Console within the Db2 Automation Tool, particularly on the HAA$ALR3 panel. This panel is used to display the autonomic actions within a maintenance window. It is very...
10 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration