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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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DASHBOARDS-Ability to define IMAGE URL based on Data items/Calcs

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing pdf docs for Optim TestData Management 11.7

No pdf-documentation is actually available
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Option to disable implicit database creation

A new Zparm which disables the possibility to create the implicit created databases which was implemented in DB2 9.Database name e.g. DSN00001
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

The option ordinality is used in XML queries but the overall performance is very slow

We use the for ordinality option in our queries but the over all performance is very poor.There is a specific XSCAN needed when ordinality is specified which takes a long time. this XSCAN produces a sequence of XML ELEMENTS. This sequence is then ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Use IIS to management certificates for PAW and PASS

Using IIS to manage certificates for Planning Analytics Workspace and Planning Analytics Spreadsheet Services would simplify the deployment and management of certificates and reduce common issues and painpoints when individually configuring each c...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alert on Cryptographic key near expiry

As per http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21341113 the cryptographic keys expire after 365 days (default setting), we recently fell foul of this as our keys expired and Cognos stopped working. We would like an alert when these are ne...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos - Simultaneous Login

It was observed that parallel session and authorization check is possible. It was observed that the user can login into the account simultaneously from 2 different browsers.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DataStage supporting writing data to GCP GCS with CMEK

DataStage (11.7.1) Google Cloud Storage (GCS) connector failed to write data into GCS, not supporting Customer Managed Encryption Key (CMEK). We in HSBC use CMEK in all components in GCP. If this is enabled, we can use GCS with DataStage directly....
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Allow system administrators to specify bufferpool sizes in "M" or "G", rather than pages.

With big memory and bufferpools measured in gigabytes, sizing pools by number of pages becomes tedious and error-prone. A 1GB pool requires one to specify -ALT BPOOL(BPx) VPSIZE(262144). A 5GB pool would be VPSIZE(1310720). Most users use "round" ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

LOAD with DISCARDS 1 should not require a discard data set

We wanted to load two partitions at partition level: //LOA001 EXEC #DB2UT, // SYSTEM=T, // SYSTEMID=L, // COND=(4,LT), // SYSUT1=Y, // LARGE=Y, // SAR=N //SYSREC01 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=VTDBM.UL.VETB0040.REC.PART1 //SYSREC02 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=VTDBM.UL.VET...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration