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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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Limit Loans to certain User Groups and/or Project tag patterns in Guarantee Pools

We want to enable more loaning of resources, but the various teams are rather territorial. They would loan to some one in either the same user group tree, and/or the same Project by regular expression. Allow Guarantee Pools to support that loan po...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow functional admin users to create or update existing chores without ADMIN rigth

Avoid functional administrators to be able to update the codes (TI processes, cube rules, security) by removing the ADMIN right but by doing that, functional admin are not anymore able to update/create chores, which is very important in their acti...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SQLCODE IFI

The IFI interface is very useful for Performance analysis. But for RAS work it would be even better if any unusual SQL code was externalized in a new IFI record.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

PAW - Object positioning using properties

No functionality in the properties to specify height/width/top/left properties for items.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

LOAD to COMMIT extent allocation

LOAD is today a single transaction. It does not create much log volume, but LOAD might run long if lots of data need to be loaded. This can lead to log full disk situation, if concurrent transactions create a large log volume.The extent allocation...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Partial Refresh for Planning Analytics Excel

Partial book formula report evaluations, at a reduced data tier memory cost. Basically for the "REFRESH SHEET" to only refresh selected sheet and not every other tab that has links to said sheet.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Space Optimization tasks monitoring

When running storage optimizations tasks (compress, repack, shrink, defragment) there is no way to monitor the progress of the task. If the table involved is a huge table, this task could run for several days and there is no way to know the task s...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Show dependacy on a data module

Client would like to have a feature in the product that shows the dependency on a data module, which reports and dashboards it is used in.A a data module used in dashboards or reports is deleted, the dashboard fails to render successfully. To avoi...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow to switch off username conversion to lowercase

We are currently using Db2, SLES11, RACF/LDAP (zOS). Application users (personalized users, not system users) connecting to Db2 are defined in RACF/LDAP. Db2 user authentication and authorization is using Transparent LDAP, accessing RACF/LDAP. T...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Need a solution for Outgoing IP address from OpenShift Cluster Node

Per our PMR Case number TS016159590 We are installing the containerized version of Connect Direct in our OpenShift environment. When we set up the NETMAP on any remote server, we use the IP address of the OpenShift node just as we always have done...
6 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted