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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Modify Recovery for COPY YES indexes

at the moment any SYSCOPY (and SYSLGRNX) entries for COPY YES indexes are deleted based on the corresponding action taken on the Tablespace (or partition). The strategy to keep the image copies and SYSCOPY related information for tablespace can be...
2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Customer is using Nexus IQ to scan SW images for potential CVEs before the SW is approved for installation. Customer is asking if IBM can use this tool internally to reduces the risk of sending them images with CVEs.

This is useful to proactively identity CVEs so that we can document and set the expectations with the customer when we deliver the SW to them.
2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow counters with lower priority (calculated earlier) to be used within evaluation conditions of higher priority counters

Use case: Users of Safer Payments have the ability to calculate the most common value of a reference attribute. For example, understanding a cardholder's most common grocery store merchant ID is a great way of reducing false/positives. Because man...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Index data lost after the deployment

Hello IBM Safer payment experts, Recently we caused operational impact with false positive by wiping out few indexes in production. Root cause analysis: Few Indexes were reset on 10/26 due to starting a configuration with a capacity being lower th...
2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Fix errors for apdiag on large systems

Multiple times now when running apdiag collect with option "--spus all" we get an error and the logs are not collected. ips/spu_all_logs e13n1 [Fail] (in run step) (108/130) ERROR: Timeout running command (timeout: 1800). Timeout can be increased ...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

SPSS Statistics needs a menu item to return all windows to their default locations

IBM SPSS Statistics users often move between docked and undocked environments where they have access to just a laptop display up to many monitors extending and/or mirroring that laptop display. Currently SPSS Statistics saves the location of open ...
4 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Add Arm64 support for Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx

I am trying to use the dotnet library Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx on an Apple Macbook M3 Pro, but it fails to work. I was told it is because the library does not support Arm64 systems. Can we add Arm64 support? See this thread for back story.
9 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Submitted

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted