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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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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...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

Modify redirected recovery to recover FROM tablespace where you can SELECT/UNLOAD and not require RECOVERAUTH.

The relatively new Db2 utility enhancement of redirected recovery is very useful When recovering a target tablespace from another tablespace one must essentially have database RECOVERAUTH on the source tablespace and the target tablespace. (please...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Json Key Files for Google Big Query Connections have credentials in Clear Text (Not secured)

When creating Google Big Query connection in Cognos Analytics it requires to add the JSON Key file location in the connection string. The JSON key file is stored on the local Cognos dispatchers and the JSON files will have sensitive security infor...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

DMC stats event monitoring needs to consider built-in wlm_collect_int

DMC WLM Statistics collection is completely independent of wlm_connect_int built-in functionality. This behavior is not ideal, as the database could have been configured for that already, and the final result is that you end up with 2 independent ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Need an APAR to fix the version mismatch in QMF V12.2

Hello Team, After the QMF v12.2 upgrade still the Home screen of the QMF tool shows as V12.1 only. When I checked with GSD team they said that IBM Labs had decided to keep the FMIDs of both the products same. Because of this we are not able to see...
almost 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

a new parameter to control to force MIPStart if the variables are feasible

CPLEX choose to use MIPStart or not accoring to the heuristic. But sometimes the user think MIPStart values as particular variables is the best way to solve the problem. So we’d like to request a new parameter to control to force MIPStart if the v...
almost 2 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Allow DDL changes on a table with full row logging

We want to use CDC to replicate data changes to a different system. We do schema changes once a month, and this complicates things a lot. According to our vendor, this is a limitation for Informix only, other source systems can hande DDL changes t...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Encrypt SSL Private key for Planning Analytics Workspace and store it secured

After configured SSL for PAW using this document:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSD29G_2.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.tm1_inst.2.0.0.doc/t_paw_enable_ssl.html It's working fine, however, the private key (inside pa-workspace.pem file) ...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

User and Site driven global parameters

Ability at global, and also user level (and maybe user groups), to create parameters/variables where selections can be created. These global/session level variables could then be used in reports/dashboards to drive the content delivered in filters...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Parameter for RECOVER utility to avoid invalidation of RTS-information

We would like a parameter (e.g. KEEP_RTS) for the RECOVER utility to indicate that real-time statistics should not be set to NULL. After a RECOVER we need to run a REBUILD of any indexes that have not been recovered, and the REBUILD utility uses R...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration