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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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Add a way to pre-encrypt db2 user password before adding it in response file to do db2 silent install.

We are OEM customer to provider our user Db2+Cognos installation, we're using db2 silent install with a response file, for now, there is no way (no tools, no command) to encrypt a plain db2 user password so that we can add this encrypted password ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade / Security 0 Not under consideration

MySQL Listener

So I know there is a Mongo listener so that you can speak mongo to DB2. I also know DB2 understands the MySQL dialect; there should be a listener so that applications can connect to it, the app thinks its mysql, but the back end is db2.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

User Membership Summary

It would be of tremendous benefit to be able to see, for an object of type user, role or group, a summary of all the roles and groups to which the object belongs. It actually seems pretty odd that this functionality apparently does not exist out o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to select a Contribution Version for Control table E705 (Indirect Minority)

In the Control table E700 (Direct Minority) it is possible to select a Contribution Version but for the table E705 (Indirect Minority) it is NOT possible to select a Contribution version. It is only possible to select a Closing Version. This is re...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

FLV Export enhancements

Suggested enhancements for FLV filtering and exports: Include workflow fields (Workflow Stage, Workflow Assignee, etc) in the UI FLV export. Include workflow fields (Workflow Stage, Workflow Assignee, etc) in object filter fields list so that user...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Provide Management Console monitor and operator functions access to all subscriptions

This is related to the CDC Db2 z/OS engine. Allow users of Management Console who are designated with monitor or operator functions to access all subscriptions without requiring select access to the source tables within the subscriptions. The curr...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add Memory Statistics to Daily Statistics

When I wrote the daily statistics interface years ago, I had very little comprehension of the concept of Memory Efficiency, and therefore did not add memory_reserved, and mem_used, and max_memory to the daily statistics tables. But in todays HPC, ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

Attribute Hierarchies - Define at Parent levels

In Planning Analytics Workspace a feature called attribute hierarchies allows users to treat attribute values as a separate dimension in a cube view. This is nice, but at the moment this feature only works on attributes for base dimension elements...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Scheduling Reports built in Controller (extraction in Excel)

Scheduling reports in Excel is the first step in the process of preparing Consolidated Financial Statements for the business leaders. Each business leader receives a Consolidated workbook with multiple tabs (BS, P&L and CF) for the companies, ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

JSON support using built in functions instead of UDF

JSON functions in DB2 are implemented as UDF functions and it is understood from IBM that there are performance implications for large volume processing using JSON UDF functions. We would like to request IBM to support JSON functions as Db2 built ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration