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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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Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 1 Future consideration

Fix the Party Relationship Transactions

We’ve recently stubbed our toes on an inconsistency in the implementations of addPartyRelationShip()/getPartyRelationship()/updatePartyRelationship(). The CONTACTREL tables, as well as the transactions above, explicitly represent the relationships...
7 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Ability to copy currency rates across more than one period

The main reason for copying currency rates is to copy ‘Constant’ rates through the 12 months of a Budget and/or Forecast actuality, and actuals restated at ‘Constant‘ rates. Therefore, it makes sense for consolidation/super users to be able to cop...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Replace DB Link between Downstream and Prod Database for 19-C TDE through IDR CDC

AS a part of 19-C TDE through IDR CDC, it uses DB Link between Primary and Downstream to call the Dictionary Build back to the Primary. IDR currently utilizes the DB link option to make the process of issuing and retrieving the StartSCN from a new...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Set up "sent from" email address in task/schedule

We use tasks and schedules to send all our reports to all departments.Now because the creator of the task is also the emailaddress which is used, he/she also gets all responses to that automaticly sent reports. We would like to set up an emailaddr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Need an API to fetch Group Administrator settings

API for groups and (users) only returns what security admin permissions that group has to administer other groups . Currently there is no API for users/groups to get the list of everyone who has access to administer them and the properties (Manage...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

Add a new security role to read the logs

Add a new security privileges to allow and restrict the log reads and history file.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Open DataStage Flows directly from Watson Pipeline Orchestration Flow

Currently, DataStage developers cannot open a parallel job directly from a sequence job. In this case, providing a way to go directly to the DataStage flow from the orchestration pipeline that is invoking the job would reduce the number of hops/cl...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

DSNACCOX RRTDataSpaceRatio & TSQTY ZPARM

Our DBAs would like to use the RRTDataSpaceRatio attribute via DSNACCOX stored procedure to facilitate triggering REORGs for over allocated tablespaces. This is not currently possible due to the fact that REORGs are triggered erroneously for small...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Permission on (specific) query based on user role, user group or user

It should be possible to restrict a query or a group of queries within a mandator to specific user roles, user groups (for cases) or even specific users (e.g. private queries). Currently every user that has the "view query" permission sees and can...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration