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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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OpenShift Secrets can be viewed as clear text on pods

Credentials setup as OpenShift secrets are readable in clear text on pods, e.g. /startup/variables on Gateway/BR/Transaction pods, /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/variables/ on liberty pods, and /secrets/db2instancepwd/ on database pods. We...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0

Truncate incompatible with online backup command

Db2 online backup for warehouse environments running longer depending on database size, online backup command have a lock incompatibility with Truncate table command which is says backup is not fully online. This should be one essential feature th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Assistant / Ask a question in Reporting

The assistant functionality where questions can be asked is readily available in Dashboards & Explorations. This RFE is to add similar functionality in reporting. We have a use-case where business-oriented people, that would only occasionally ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Showing the QUERYNO in the accesspath for static sql

When I look at any APDETAIL of a static sql it does not show me the value of the QUERYNO even though in the report the field exists.Not all columns of the PLAN_TABLE will be shown in the access path details. The columns that are not shown, though,...
9 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Using SAS data sets in Cognos Analytics

Ability to use SAS data sets as a data source in Cognos.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Link PAW security to TM1 control cubes

Link PAW security to TM1 control cubes Replicate “}ApplicationSecurity” cube for workbook security, dimensions are }WorkbookEntries }GroupsThe settings in the cube are• View only - The user can view content in the book but can't edit it.• ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide partition load for multiple partitions

GGDB212007 Provide a parameter for a partition range and/or partition listing like reorg utility does, e.g. -> PART (18:20, 22, 25)
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Application status change time is not available in any mon_get_* table functions

In snap admin views, users could see STATUS_CHANGE_TIME column for the application which was helpful in determining when exactly the application changed it status when investigating performance issues. This would help users to estimate or know how...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Make Export add a column header row to output

Export is often used to download data from a Db2 Server to a user's workstation where they then look at it in excel.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Start IDE with fraction of CPU request or with no cpu request

Today most IDE in WatsonStudio need to be started with 1 CPU. The customer would like the ability to start IDE with franctions of cpu and not a full cpu or even if possible with no cpu request Customer uses Jupyter, Spark and rStudio IDE. Today us...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review