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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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Audit Trail of books

We need the ability to trace every single activities of book creations , changes and specially deletion. so if any issue happens we have some idea of what happened and what to do.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Proactive warning Message

The enhancement we would request is to prevent the problem at its source. If some action will cause any object to fail for any reason (including migration), such action should be prevented. At the very least, some sort of warning should be provide...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Create utility to generate encrypted password in the same manner as AVZDRATH

Currently, AVZDRATH has the ability to take in an encrypted password as input, however there are no other utilities available to generate the encrypted password outside of AVZDRATH. Since our DVM support team will be responsible for managing the g...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add journal position in event log to easy linked process to bussiness reporting or other king process

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Remember UserID at Login to Repository

It would be very useful if there was an option for the IBM SPSS C&DS Deployment Manager client to remember my preferred User ID when logging in to a content repository.
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Logical Backup

Create “loadable” files foe objects rather than table space dumps. Only base table contents, no indexes
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Migration from SMS/Raw to AS

How to move the thousands DBs which use a combination of SMS (syscatspace) and RAW to full automatic storage. Some DBs are 100+TB so unload/load is not an option. Need a date for elimination of SMS/RAW support to determine our priotiy!
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

RP Tables syntax

If the “INDEX IN” option is left off the index goes in the default TSP. There is no way to change this later
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

SPSS handling of Foreign characters

Data being extracted from a data warehouse contain foreign characters. There are characters are not part of the world writing systems. Any attempt to load these datasets to a Netezza Database always fails
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

merge node: join small local dataset to large remote dataset by sending the local data literally in the sql query

In a merge node, when joining a small local dataset to a large remote database table, Modeler downloads the entire contents of the large table in order to perform the join. This is often prohibitive. Instead, if the local dataset is small enough (...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration