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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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Config of DB2 Federated Servers without CATALOG

Currently the CREATE SERVER for Db2 family data sources relies on a node and database having been catalogued using the CATALOG NODE and CATALOG DATABASE commands. It would be better if the host / port / location could be specified rather than the ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Enable SAML based authentication for Watson Discovery Web Crawler

Hi - We would like to have IBM enable SAML based authentication for the Watson Discovery web crawler. Most of the web pages we'd like to crawl here at CVS are protected by SAML authentication... however, Watson Discovery does not support SAML auth...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Interactive Prompt screen for Manual Job Run

We have a few jobs set up to run manually. But the prompt page for the report in the job is not popping up and users have set prompt value going through edition options. That cause a few issue with security and we have re set up the job if the use...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB stages should have options to disable "view data"

View Data options could be disabled for users. there should be an option for enabling /disabling view data based upon users/projects/jobs/environment variable level
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

MDM CE Workflow Dashboard should display person name

Infosphere MDM CE Workflow Dashboard should display person name instead of “Reserved by Other”.MDM CE captures this information as it is displayed when we hover over an item in Collaboration Area. We want to see the same information on the das...
almost 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Create Accounting Data Lite record type

The standard DB2 Accounting record has become increasingly bloated over the years. All of the information contained in each record is useful, but much of it is not necessary for basic Accounting purposes. Because the record is so big, and so expen...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Selective Suppression of DB2 maintained System History

There are times when it is not desirable to create a new DB2 maintained system history row if the values in the columns of the base table have actually not changed. DB2 already suppresses the actual update of a non-temproal table if none of the co...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

'parallel_mqthread' parameter for Db2 LUW

Customer operates the IRS both on z/OS and LUW. IRS on z/OS supports parallel_mqthread parameter , but that is not supported on LUW. He requests to support it for LUW as well to improve performance.
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Poor deletion performance...

No description provided
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Fileconnector and Avro

File Connector to generate its own Avro schema, and at run time. Anything that moves us closer to that, and further away from a) hand coding Avro schemas b) physically copying them to the edge node, would probably be step in the right direction
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration