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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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Request to have a Auto Loader of Platform Connections Page instead of "Show More" Option

On the Platform Connection Connections Page while you try to browse your existing connections after limited connections got listed we have a "Show More" Button which then updates/shows the next available connections, If we have more than 150 to 20...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Change DSNARNMG to have a user define task name

Currently there's a hard coded name in module DSNARNMG. That program always tries to start a task called: DB2UDSMD. That is unacceptable for some installations where they have job and task name standards. This RFE is to add a new ZPARM to allow th...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow threads which use the accelerator (IDAA) to go inactive

Today, once a distributed thread has had a query offloaded to IDAA, that thread can never go inactive again. The desired behavior change is to allow distributed threads which utilize the accelerator to follow the same rules for going inactive as a...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Google Chrome samesite HTTPS cookie preservation

Google Chrome 84 version has deployed new samesite cookie restrictions. The only workaround is to have the end-user modify their chrome cookies to 'disable' samesite. Cognos is integrated within our own web-based product using an iframe. We have c...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dymanic cross-tabulation with process execution

I would like to know how to display data in Cognos from a pivot table with process execution existing in IBM planning. In IBM planning there is a function to add an action button and you can add a process (as in the screenshot) and you can also sy...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Authorization Switching for ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and DSNUTILU

ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and execution of DSNUTILU need to have the capability to allow for authorization switching. Our developers and application production support teams need to be able to cancel threads relevant to the jobs they support vs having to ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add a link ordering option to DataStage Sequence Activities

In several DataStage stages there is a link ordering option (e.g. Transformer or Join Stage), this is not the case for DataStage Sequence Activities. If a sequence has multiple output links, then the order of these can only be changed by deattachi...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

2-Phase commit for JDBC driver to Postgres

We use a replication solution which utilizes DB2 LUW Federation as a link between DB2 z/OS (source database) and Postgres (target database). So the picture is as follows: SQL Replication 11.4 -Db2 z/OS 12 on mainframe, -Db2 LUW Federation 11.5.8, ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Needs more information

Increase medium performance to upload data via FastMap

The medium performance to upload data via FastMap is unacceptable by the client. The uploading time of 3 records per second must be reduced to 6 records per second. We are referring to the simple upload, with just the standard FastMap checks, with...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Future consideration

Improve TM1 Server Startup Logging

Please have the TM1 Server log more details between the following lines during start up for at least the three below situations : 1- 41944 [] INFO 2020-02-14 09:36:13.975 TM1.Transaction TM1TransactionLog::Initialize: Recovery of lingering transac...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration