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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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Allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key

Creating a storage connection in Cognos Analytics requires access key ID and the secret access key only. We would like an enhancement to allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

ADM - PANELID ADB1S - DROP at COMMAND line does not provide process to DROP RESTRICT ON DROP

Dropping at the command line does not allow the capability to have DROP ON RESTRICT ALTERS be generated. When entering DROP in the SELECT field, panels are displayed to accomplish this. This should also be done for DROP at the command line. This s...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future 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

Add timestamp to all -DISPLAY command outputs

More and more companies are using multiple DISPLAY commands to track for problems or usage statistics etc. The problem is that the TIMESTAMP when the command was issued is not in the output (apart from DISPLAY BLOCKERS) It would be really good to ...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

Removing defunct Delta Backup images after automatic database backup image removal

We have automated backup options enabled (num_db_backups and rec_his_retentn both set). Our backup schedule takes a full backup on Sunday and a Delta every other day of the week. When a full backup image qualifies for removal, with reference to th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

DB2 online backup using Tivoli Storage Manager causes DB2 hang

Fix the online back freezing issue as described at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21979921
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Spark pods, do better clean up for idle pods

In ticket TS016219727 we did some enhancement to the cronjob that cleans up spark idle jobs. This is an issue with CP4D 4.6 and 4.8 on-prem specifically with the Spark IDE started from Watson Studio. We would like for these enahancements to be in ...
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

enable 'single sign on' website login

useful to avoid end users retyping their password to log on RTM website
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration