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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Allow IAM access for server to S3 to work for Db2 backups

AWS allows a server or container to have an IAM role that allows access to S3 and other resources without authentication. However, cataloging a storage alias requires a key and secret key to work, regardless of whether the IAM role is set up for t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Future consideration
105 VOTE

Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Local client being compatible for different product versions

The Controller 11 client that is currently downloaded From Controller Web to a user's machine is only compatible to a single product version. For customers with separate production and development environments this will cause a restriction, say de...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Remove Group Based Access Limitation

Description of Limitation: IBM has defined a few limitations with role based access which include the following: A role cannot own database objects. Permissions and roles granted to groups are not considered when you create the following database ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 2 Future consideration

HADR/Pacemaker for AIX

While HADR/Pacemaker for Linux is available, Pacemaker for AIX is not availabe and needed now to avoid a hold-up in our adoption of Db2 vNext.
9 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Ability to hide certain report type in PAfE

It would be useful to have the ability to remove certain report types. It would simplify users adoption as there are 5 report types at the moment in PAfE. Also we could coerce users to use only a specific ones like Universal report or custom repor...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

PAW: unique field in permission setting

In PAW, user’s name is used to identify user (e.g.: when permission setting) even through name is not unique parameter. When you have two users with same name, you cannot recognize them when permissions setting. Therefore, we suggest that unique f...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Create a Graviton ARM build for Linux for cplex

Useful for better performance on AWS compute.

Create new SQL-VIEW to show ALL GRANTS

Today we have a useful sql-view named SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES that aggregates in a consistent and easy way to query all different types of privileges that are currently granted to an authid. This is very useful. But we lack some other stuff like info...
8 months ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration