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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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MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Add AWS RDS for Db2 as a target database for Data Gate on Cloud

Data Gate on cloud available at AWS only syncronize data for Db2 z/OS to a Db2 Warehouse SaaS. The idea is to add AWS RDS Db2 as an target database.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Not under consideration

Prompt/parameter defauts - Set by Query (Use Query as source instead of hardcoded text)

Instead of hardcoded text, have the option to use a query as the source for prompt/parameter defaults. This will make the default selection of a prompt dynamic (user can access each report with own preferences). In our company we need to be able t...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Change History Should Show Changes in Parent Assocations

The change history section the detail page shows changes in fields on the object and changes in child assocations (added/removed).Would like to see in parent associations (added/removed) show in the same view.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable

Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable Db2 federation is activated by: UPDATE DATABASE MANAGER CONFIGURATION USING FEDERATED YES To use federation it is necessary to stop/start database manager. Please make it possible to activate federat...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

The ability to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence directly on zOS

It would be useful for DB2 sysprogs to be able to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence to a database natively on zOS without the need to install the runtime client and run the db2connectactivate utility.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Add Option to Migrate Datasets that were Recalled as Part of a Scan

Please add an option so a user can specify that the LAT job submitted migrates any datasets (thinking archive log datasets here) that it had to recall to complete the scan. An example would be where a user attempts to scan multiple days in the pas...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to have online messages to detail why go-lives are in queue and pending processing.

Product and Tech support teams would have more visibility with understanding why a go-live is in queue. Specifically, support staff would be able to differentiate deadlock vs BAU processing situations. This would assist staff with determining if a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Create new SQL-VIEW to show ALL GRANTS

Today we have a useful sql-view named SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES that aggregates in a consistent and easy way to query all different types of privileges that are currently granted to an authid. This is very useful. But we lack some other stuff like info...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Add support for data retention for OpenPages

EU financial regulators now have stringent requirements around data retention and other regulators elsewhere are likely to follow soon. Such data retention requirements specify that certain customer/seller data must be deleted after a period of ti...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Under review