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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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More granular authorization control over IDAA table resources

More granular authorization control over IDAA table resources. 1. The current IDAA Stored Procedure can add AT for any DB2 tables, only if user has been granted the EXECUTE privilege of SYSPROC.ACCESLL_ADD_TABLES and several related authorizations...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Put fields/Date Items in folders and also mark as hidden in a data module

Some fields in datamodules will be things like surrogate keys, which I dont want users to see or use. Currently I dont see a way to hide them. Additionally when there are a number of fields in a table, it is more logical for users to see these in ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DR repair index - Not applicable to RSS servers

We have an index corrupted as a result of applying a new fragmentation strategy. The index is fine on the primary but corrupted on both HDR and two RSS servers. The only way of fixing this index is to rebuild the index online which will take a hou...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Accurate TIMESTAMP values for the detailed DataStage log reports.

DataStage's detailed log reports do not have accurate TIMESTAMP values that represent when any of the underlying events actually started and/or completed. We have dozens of jobs that run for a half an hour or longer and without having accurate TIM...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Another chart idea for new UI

(separate from the suggestion for KRI time series charts) It would be very useful on objects such as issue and risk event to be able to show a simple graphical representation of dates example dates would be Date identified, occurrence start date, ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Add 'WITHOUT CURSOR HOLD' bind option

We have occasionally seen timeouts against DB2 catalog tables that trace back to long running threads from QMF for Workstation that are running WITH CURSOR HOLD
almost 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Templates should support defered tape Mounts

We use a VTL for our Tape Environment. For a VTL it is recommended by IBM to use UNIT=(TAPE,,DEFER) in all Jobs. DB2 uses templates to generate JCL. In this templates it is not possible to code a DEFER parameter. Is there a way to solve this dilemma?
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Multiple windows for SQL Results

When using the Data perspective to run SQL you have to independently click on the SQL results to view the result for each run in the right hand window. Suggestion would be to make it possible to break out each result into its own movable window, b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Have FTM Public Views That Mirror Control Center's UI Data Model

The FTM Control Center's operational data model consists of: - Inbound Physical Transmission - Inbound Transmission - Inbound Batch - Processing Batch - Inbound Segments - Transactions - Endpoints - Outbound Batches - Outbound Transmissions - Outb...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Functionality already exists

Set persistence and expiry of MQ messages at the application level

Actor: User needs enhanced features In our company, we do not define queues with persistent, but expect the application has the ability to set it as persistent in the MQMD. Additionally, messages should have a set expiry (not set to infinite). Bot...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Not under consideration