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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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Recycle Bin for OpenPages Processes

We would like to see a recycle bin for processes and other objects deleted from OpenPages so when mistakes occur by a user, admins can be called to assist in restoration. Baring this, a 'soft' delete would be helpful to give users time during thei...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Provide capability for SLB Utility to timeout when HSM does not respond to backup request.

Currently the SLB utility sits in a wait state until ackowledgement of the backup request is returned from HSM. During this time a lock SYS_PITR is is held that prevents any DFDSS activity by Db2. This can lead to Db2 thread failures and data inco...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Update Java API to be able to run Cognos reports into Excel 2007 format.

The Java API supports the running of Cognos Reports but the Output Format for the report is limited to the enumeration types documented in the CognosOutputFormat class - which is CSV, PDF, XLWA, HTML, XML. To be able to run a report via the API in...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

SEL Prototype to include HIDDEN columns

Contents of Hidden columns can only be viewed by explcitly naming them in a SELECT statement. There is no problem with this but there are times when I want to a) know that a column is hidden from the column panel ADB21TC b) issue a SELECT that wil...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add ability to edit and copy/paste in ignores and excludes as there is for masks.

The compare masks screen has functionality to edit (panelid ADB2C21 and option E goes to ADB2EDIT). Within edit session, I can copy and then swap to another screen which has another environment mask open then paste, make changes, and save. All sav...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

have ACCEL_LOAD_TABLES switch automatically to full table reload

ACCEL_LOAD_TABLE jobs are generated with detectChanges="DATA". On some large partitioned tables more or less all partitions end up being loaded. The subsequent DELETE/REORG RECLAIM operation runs for + 12 hours and consumes a large amount of CPU. ...
8 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Improve License Scheduler to be able to read the PID of the process from lmstat

License Scheduler has a big bug that is documented in ========================================= https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=notes-known-issues-limitations Same features cannot be merged to the tasks When a user submits mo...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

Redshift connector - Allow the use of IAM role authentication to establish connection instead of the access key and secret key.

Allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key
8 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Support integration with a secret management solution like HashiCorp Vault

Allow to save secrets (password, private key, certificat) per user allowing access to external services (WebAPi, files, etc.) other than just databases.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics does not suport Google Big Query Data Nested Record Type

Google Big Query supports nested record type .Currently Cognos Analytics has no way of knowing that it is not a VARCHAR, driver will return a RECORD type as a VARCHAR with a string in a JSON format .As a result any nested field with record type re...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration