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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Removing the dataset upload size limit.

Etisalat wants to migrate their dashboards and reports to Cognos Analytics but are restricted by the dataset size limits.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

db2start of a running instance should reload/restart configuration without interruption of current sessions

Sometimes dbm configuration changes are not active immediately and require a full instance restart. E.g. adding an SSL port and config updates of the db catalog changes in SYS*_GROUP ... It would be great, if a db2start command is issued while the...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 2 Not under consideration

Q Replication to Kafka Targets

Kafka evolves as a platform for real time data streaming, analytics, and event processing. For enterprise customers the challenge is to let data originating on IBM z flow to Kafka. Popular options are Kafka APIs, MQ, data replication. Only data re...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 3 Not under consideration

Increase messaging detail after STOP Db2 to provide shutdown status information.

As Db2 continues to allow more and more capacity in a single subsystem - larger bufferpools, more open datasets, etc - the time to shut down Db2 continues to increase. Operational staff has complained repeatedly that they cannot tell whether Db2 i...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add onstat -g vpcache detail to show breakdown of usage e.g. smx buffers

. When the vp-cache grows to gigabytes we need to see why it is growing. Currently shared memory dumps have to be sent to HCL for analysis. Propose 'onstat -g vpcache detail' to show what the vpcache on each cpu vp is being used for e.g. smx buffers.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IBMCloud - Initiate Triggers following Cube Deployment and/or seeing a Flag File

since customer has no visibility on the cube deployment process, customer expects IBMCloud to handle end to end deployment and schedule/job execution process.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add onconfig parameter to not allow slow alters.

Add an onconfig parameter so that slow alters are not allowed by default. This is to prevent outages for customers from long transaction rollbacks.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use Questions in Calculations

While Questions for a Questionnaire Assessment are not a full OpenPages object type, they are availalbe in reporting and via the UI. In order to utilise them more fully, it would be great to have the ability to retrieve answer values from Question...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Not under consideration

Masking function with GRANT per column

Column masking has been great help in managing sensitive data and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).But today’s solution to know if a user has access to data without masking is to create a Mask using a CASE with SESSION_...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration