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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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diag log search

DSM previously had a Diagnostic Log view for viewing/searching data server diagnostic and event messages. This functionality does not exist in DMC. The layout in DSM provided an easy way to review multiple diag logs in one place and should be adde...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

CDC DB2 range partitioned table not replicating data

CDC DB2 range partitioned table not replicating data whenever there is attach / detach operation performed from source table. We have configured system parameter “range_partitioned_table_support = true “ however it is not replicating data. Partiti...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Need the ability to "Import" or "Load" data from CSV file

We have the ability to Export to CSV file, we need the ability to Import from CSV. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to do this.
11 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Watson Pipelines: non-SSL support for SMTP in Send Email task

The Cloud Pak for Data Platform allows for SMTP to be configured (and works) without requiring SSL. However, Watson Pipelines requires SSL to be configured. Watson Pipelines should inherit the SMTP settings from the platform
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Data Server Metadata - Kerberos Connection

Kerberos, or other passwordless connections are becoming the standard authentication method for data sources. Data Servers are requirements to use web-based modelling. However, to pull metadata in a data server connection requires the user to have...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Population of V12 new added Catalog columns during activation of Function level V12R1M50 and avoid it later during executions of ALTER TABLESPACE because of contention of packages.

After you apply the PTF for APAR PI86123, the first ALTER TABLESPACE, populates any null attributes for objects created in function level V12R1M100 or earlier. When the one-time population occurs for an ALTER TABLESPACE statement, Db2 must quiesce...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Update DB2 (DDF) to use a stronger Hash Algorithm in the DDF global authentication cache feature

Presently, DB2 DDF is using MD5 Hashing in the DDF global authentication cache feature. This hashing cipher is long considered weak and guidance is that it should no longer be used. We ask IBM to consider a change to DB2 to up level this feature t...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve jobs options and features

Better usability and improve productivity Hi , i would like to suggest some improvements regarding jobs on cognos. i have a similar scenario: users have at disposal some views to see the results of prelaunched reports. those reports are built with...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Prevent modification of historical Investment register entries

Users are currently allowed to edit any Investment Register entries, regardless of if they are in a historically closed accounting period. This can cause issues when trying to re-run consolidation for previous periods.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add ability to have multiple Q-replication targets on Db2wh

Currently on Db2wh, there is no ability to add multiple targets for Q-Replication. Please consider adding that idea as we have business case to implement such solution