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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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Multiple file import on CC Web

A user can currently select and import multiple flatfiles within Controller Classic, thus loading multiple company files in one action. In contrast, Controller Web restricts file import to a single file import. Can Web be updated to accept multipl...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Option 12 panel (Change Capture Agent IP address) needs to allow for unplanned change of IP addresses

The current process for clients utilizing the Option 12 panel (Change Capture Agent IP address and TCP port for z/OS) requires that Replication be stopped in a controlled manner prior to updating the IP addresses. This process does not allow for d...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

REST API use with searchpath

We want to be able to use the REST API with searchpath as alternative to the store id. All syntactical possibilities of a searchpath should be able to be used (e.g. wildcard, object type filter, name filter). As of today, we mainly use SOAP SDK an...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Data Masking in INFORMIX

Our objective is not to see any sensitive data outside the production systems. As an example here is our real requirement. In a PROD environment, we can see the table data as usual . For data protection purposes, the data of the same table needs t...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Reduce manual steps in the OpenPages deployment process

There are too many manual steps in the OpenPages deployment process which is a risk to a successful deployment and stability of the deployed code. This request is to automate or eliminate the manual steps. Please check the attached file for the en...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Future consideration

Need to support namespace based pull secrets for cp.icr.io

When deploying cloud paks into a multi-tenant cluster, there are security issues with having to update the global pull secret. This would allow any tenant in the cluster to pull images from the registry regardless of if they had a valid license an...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

Improve SQL0293N when creating database on 4K sector size disk

On CREATE DATABASE db2 reports a very generic error message SQL0293N when there is a write access to a 4K sector size disk. Instead should do a check when creating containers e.g. read 512 bytes, if this does not work, read 4K block. If 4K block c...
5 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Db2 type connection to support user specific connection hook parameters

Our Db2 database requires additional user specific parameters for a connection.Format: jdbc:db2://<<server>>:<<port>>/<<database>>:clientApplicationInformation=<<xxxxx>>;clientAccountingInformation=&...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Link FLA messages to auto recovery task id

We did a large GRECP recovery test with around 68.000 GBP dependend objects. After restart and the automatic GRECP recovery we see a lot of DSNI025I, DSNI026I, DSNI027I, DSNI028I and DSNI029I messages as expected, but they have no correlation to t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration