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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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Ability to mask a column by both a data class and a tag

We want the ability to have a data protection rule that uses an "And" clause and a "Tag" and appropriately masks based only on the "AND TAG = " clause. Right now we found that when we tag a column with the data class and a tag, the column only mas...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Enhance high availability for partition by growth tablespaces.

Real-life scenario is described in the first paragraph below. I included a subset of it. The issue resulted in critical system outage caused a partition by growth dataset that hit max extents prior to hitting the DSMAX for the partition tablespace...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 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,...
6 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

git Repository & DataStage

Actually, git integration does only work for projects including Notebooks, but not DataStage flows. It is even worse: when creating project with git integration, it is not longer possible to add DataStage flows AT ALL! Only projects w/o git integr...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Remove Workflow Validation Dropdown when there are no validations for an Action

When you include Guidance text on a stage of a workflow it automatically includes a dropdown for validating the actions that can take place on the workflow. In a lot of cases the actions do not have validations so these dropdown menu items serve n...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Future consideration

IIDR CDC Access Server : Improve support of MS Active Directory in LDAP Authentication Only mode

Many companies use MS ActiveDirectory servers to store their user credentials.This is a widely used infrastructure solution. We want to use IIDR CDC Access Server in LDAP Authentication Only mode by connecting it to our Microsoft ActiveDirectory ...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Future consideration

Integrated Pacemaker Monitoring & Alerting Functionality

IBM recently integrated the Pacemaker cluster manager in Db2 but the feature has no documented monitoring or alerting capabilities exhibiting best practices. Enlighten customers with Best Practice/Configuration documentation on how to setup the mo...
3 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Idea - Initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription

To Add an Option / Auto to initiate a Refresh on Table withAdd an option to initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription We replicate data from Db2 to Oracle/Kafka and vice versa and we need a zero downtime replication pipe and at...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

View/Expand per dimension

Functionality to be able to set the exploration feature (show +/- on rows) in PAW per dimension and not just per view.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Safer Payments purge outdated entries limit

Problem Description: Purge outdated entries of indexes inside IBM IRIS Safer Payments does not support the concept of span control to limit the scope of removal of all index entries that are older than a defined maximum lifetime period. Supporting...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 2 Future consideration