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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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Losing Focus on Which Query I am working in Query Explorer

When I am working on a Query, I am losing the Focus, I mean I am unable to see by highlighting on Focus or something so that I know which query I am working with. I'm not sure, if this is a requested feature or if it is already part of releases af...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

FMT function required for MSIF Services in FinPlus

FMT Function for SIPN-FIN Service is available. But there isn't a similar function for MSIF Service in FinPlus. There will be cost implication if the routing is done through SWIFT.
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Change stored procedure SYSPROC.NNSTAT to use method 2 for ODBC based nicknames

The SYSPROC.NNSTAT stored procedure uses method 1 for automatic, asynchronous statistics collection for ODBC based nicknames.This results in lack of statistics being collected, leading the optimizer to derive at inefficient access plans.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Replication Toolset

Enhancement request for the Infosphere Data Replication Management Console. 1.) Console to capture waits on DML leading to latency 2.) Preserve subscription/table performance monitors via save to quickly setup after a shutdown/startup. 3.) Save hi...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enable rebind of packages after a reorg in Automation Tool

I want to use Automation Tool to reorganise a tablespace to materialise a change to a UTS. I will issue the ALTER TABLESPACE MAXPARTITIONS nnn statement during the working day, which will put the tablespace into the AREOR state. I have a job profi...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Add ability to use custom Oracle functions in Data Module

Framework Manager has the ability to import custom Oracle functions to the model. These functions can then be used as filters or as columns in reports to either limit the data returned or to return additional information as a column when the repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please replace "password rules" by "password evaluations"

When installing DB2 for GKLM, I am asked to provide a passwords (DB2 and Application), that contains 2 digits, a special, an upper-case and a lower-case character. I tell customers about "quantum safe", long passwords and using special characters....
4 months ago in Db2 / Security 1 Submitted

Lock when editing a skill

Locking a skill when somebody is editing it avoids conflict between users, opening a skill at the same time, and trying to apply modifications.
4 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Bowtie visualization that also allow user to associate and disassociate objects in it.

Allowing users to have a bowtie visualization of the risk and the associated object(e.g. cause and consequences) at the same time allow user to disassociates/associate or update some preconfiged fields through this visualization.
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review