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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Extract Data signon UserName from Data source connections

We want to get the user id that Cognos uses to connect to the reporting Database. I am able to get the credentials from the data source sign on (doing a search on dataSourceSignon) However it is in encrypted form. This is important for management ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

hide or remove user from the MDMCS

I would like to see a soft delete option to user management from visibility in the UI, perhaps add a third button to hide unused and inactive users. For audit purposes, I do not want the user deleted from the database
about 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Allow Db2 SysAdmins to specify explicit numbers of DIR or DATA entries, as an alternative to RATIO

The Challenge The current mechanism for specifying the number of Directory Entries and/or Data Pages in a Group Bufferpool is the RATIO parameter. This worked well enough when memory sizes were small. With Db2 for z/OS bufferpools in the 10s ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable DB2 instances on AUFS (Docker)

DB2 can be installed on AUFS, but database instances cannot be created (see https://github.com/jeffbonhag/db2-docker/issues/2#issuecomment-52920986). DB2 express (and every other edition) uses O_DIRECT to access the file system, which is not avail...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Attributes in Workspace

When adding attributes to a view within PAW, you are able to select as many attributes as you want. If by chance you select many attributes, then you can no longer see the data as the attributes table does not have a scroll.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reorg online with a mapping table

It will be very helpful to have a new reorg online with a mapping table like on DB2 z/OS with the same performance level.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add server/host down alert to Open Admin Tool

Provide a means to have Open Admin Tool check for an informix server or a host being down and send an email when one is found.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 WLM to enable it to prioritize access to physical I/O

We have a Db2 AESE 11.1 fp4a mixed use (but no column tables) data warehouse on an AIX 7.2 LPAR that is limited to 75K IOPS by NetApp. When the threshold is met, high priority OLTP queries submitted by our 1000 retail store POS systems can hang in...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Select Many Intents

When downloading or deleting intents it would be great if you can shift and click many intents when downloading or deleting so you don't have to click each one. Also when you download if the description would be exported with intents list
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Option to make selected cell in Websheets invisible

Currently, the selected cell is visible in Websheets in Planning Analytics Workspace and a workaround is needed to hide it.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration