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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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Implement CREATE OR REPLACE option for triggers/views/synonyms/row types

Since a similar option for stored procedures is available starting with version 14.10 it would be handy if this syntax could also be introduced for triggers, views, synonyms and row types. Currently you first have to drop a trigger/view/synonym or...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow for simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier

It is an expected behaviour of the simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier.
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration

Heat Map in the Dashboard (Task-Focused UI)

Is it possible (in future system improvements) to have the heat map graph in the Dashboard? It would be very helpful for the End-User. Many thanks GR
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Get sequence's NEXTCACHEREFRESHVALUE from cache.

Please see the attached word document and as our development teams are trying to retrieve the NEXTCACHEREFESHVALUE value after ALTER SEQUENCE ..RESTART and before invoking NEXT VALUE but could not able to find the way to get the value of NEXT CACH...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

LSF to control SSH sessions on hosts running LSF jobs

We have many users who need to open an SSH session from their IDE ( VSCode, PyCharm) to a cluster machine running their LSF job so they can debug/troubleshoot/test in realtime in an interactive session. While battach works to connect to a cluster ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 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...
over 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...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Labeling Cognos Report Outputs using Microsoft Purview Information Protection SDK

We have a business requirement to add a 'Microsoft Purview Information Protection' tags to a Cognos Report during downloads. Adding these tags to the reports will help in tracking Data Leakage in organization after reports are generated.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 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.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration