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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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Enhancement of security administration of capability Upload Files

In CA11, we can only administrate which group, role and user are granted or denied to use Capability Upload Files (Via Administration Console > Security > Capabilities > Upload Files). More permission details to secure per group, role and...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

DB2 Databases on RHEL want to use Active Directory without LDAP

Hello Team , One of the largest account from Norway wanted to use DB2 Databases on RHEL want to use Active Directory without LDAP . This is stopping orginization to migrate 20+ databases from other RDBMS . Currently DB2 databases on RHEL can only ...
10 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

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

Track effects of model changes

Cognos Analytics to get a feature so when you update/publish a new version of a module or data set to re-write over the old version Cognos to indicate the impact or reports and dashboards, if columns will be effected and which reports the change w...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drop STP SQL with dependency of other STP SQL type NATIVE

We have a general purpose StoredProcedure (STPX1) that is called by other native StoredProcedures (STPA1, STPA2, STPA3, etc) that have CALL statements to STPX1, If I need DROP the STP STPX1 (for recreate later) I receive the error -478 for depende...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lock escalation on HISTORY STATISTICS catalog tables for DROP statement

add the ability for lock escalation on the catalog tables which contains the HISTORICAL STATISTISCs data (SYSIBM.SYS...HIST)
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Online Reorg takes 10 times the size of the table in logs to complete

Note - case id TS000861837 (it won't let me inter this in the pmr)See example provided in pmr.Some table take more than 10 times the size of the table in logs to complete.There seems to be very little in the way of documentation that I or the pmr ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Support for authentication other than basic authentication on web crawlers

Watson Discovery's web crawlers implement Basic authentication support as website access authentication. Currently, there are few basic authentications for websites that are used commercially in the world, and most of them are "form authenticat...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Drill through on Dashboards on direct click on the section of visualization

To achieve the drill through to the Destination by a single click on part of the visuals and not selecting and then going to visualization box and clicking on Drill through Icon.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Changing partitioning key columns

Most of our tables that are created before DB2 V8 (and even some created later than that) uses the primary key as the partitioning key. The resulting partitioning key therefore consists of many columns, but the significant columns for partitioning...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration