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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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Surrogate Key Reset after failure of parallel DataStage job as state file is left as Truncated.

If a job fails at the while the parallel engine transformer function NextSurrogateKey() is updating the key state file,it is possible that the state file will be left in a truncated state. To a later job, the TRUNCATED state file looks just a NEW ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Every logon attempt should be logged with source IP information

Every logon event should be logged and with source IP address. This is for audit purpose, and also for identifying the source host that issues failed attempts.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Future consideration

Allow SELECT INTO to assign query results to Local Variables within a Function/Procedure

When trying to assign a query result to local variables within a PROCEDURE or FUNCTION using Dynamic SQL only a DYNAMIC CURSOR (see below) can be used which leads to more complicated and lengthy code. However, using SELECT INTO (see below) could b...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Table-Valued-Function (TVF) within DB2 SQL PL Module

Within a SQL PL MODULE, a Table-Valued-Function/TVF cannot be created, but outside of a MODULE, this can be done. This seems to be a restriction on MODULE functionality given that they are an analog to PL/SQL PACKAGES. Our request is to allow the ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Allow consent to be recorded for Organizations in MDM

Currently, attempts to record consent against an contact in MDM classified as an organization yields the following error: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <TCRMService xmlns=" http://www.ibm.com/mdm/schema " xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 6 Not under consideration

creating a nickname of a DB2i series table when it have indexes using expressions

hi, there is a limitation of the DB2 federation, it is impossible to create a nickname to a DB2i table if it has an index using expression https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/drda-wrapper-returns-sql0901n-index-column-name-not-found-search-1-while-c...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

Adding assets from the default catalog to individual catalogs

Operation is easier if you can select data assets and data connections that have business terms assigned to them from the default catalog and push them to individual data catalogs. Even if you automatically assign a term in data discovery, it refl...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Please rebrand "SQL PL" to "SQL PSM" or "SQL/PSM"

Hi, as we know Db2 supports the SQL PSM standard really closely and in the only mainstream database to do this. However, your Knowledge Center is confusing because the name given to SQL PSM in Db2 is SQL PL. Because Db2 also supports Oracle PL/SQL...
about 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Cognos is vulnerable to clickjacking through direct dispatcher URL

Product or Service: Cognos Connection 10.2.1 Component ID: 5724W12CC . Operating System: Windows (Microsoft) . Problem title :- Cognos is vulnerable to clickjacking through direct dispatcher URL . Problem description and business impact Summary:- ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Classification Labelling for Planning Analytics

Our company has an IT security requirement that all data has a classification whether it is electronic or printed on paper. There are four different classifications of data and the user should be allowed to choose one. The label would need to be i...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration