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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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New Database Parameter to Open Db2 for LUW Backup Files in Read-Only Mode for Deleting It

Refer to case TS005462380 for more details. Due to the rise in hackers targeting backup data files, our company has implemented Retention Lock on all backup files, including Db2 database backup files and archive log files, by changing the file per...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Enable RENAME TABLE on tables with triggers

SAP is working on enable the Zero Downtime solution (ZDO), which uses RENAME TABLE to switch between old and new table definitions, also for SAP systems that use a sidecar (SAP SLT - System Landscape Transformation). For SLT, SAP defines triggers ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include user first and last name in user selector fields that are exported from UI

When users export from FLV to create fastmap templates, user selector fields are exported with user id only, and many times the user may be an employee id/non-descript identifier, so it would be great to have an export option where the user select...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Add Exasol to the supported Databases

Currently IBM Modeler does not support Exasol as Database. But we are able to connect the Database with an native ODBC-driver. Given the case we are forced to use Exasol instead of Oracle-DB, we will loose a lot of Performance. Exasol tried to fix...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Customer raised concerns over PUT method used by MDM instead they want to use POST

Sharing the concern raised by bank’s security group. If we can address the same please. Thanks If PUT method if enabled, an attacker may be able to place arbitrary and potentially malicious content into the application. Depending on the server's c...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Variable labels in regression mobile tables (output) as in checked in options

Now variable name used in tables even "labels" setting used in options. Add new checkbox for variable naming for regression tables or make it behavior more general.
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration

Change datatype of uploaded datafile

Change datatype of uploaded datafile After uploaded an uploaded datafile, a column has assigned the wrong datatype. It is string format but must be integer format
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

TM1 Web should have the same set editor as PAW

As we have multiple templates built in TM1 Perspectives and presented in PAW, those templates ultimately use the TM1 Web set editor which is different than the set editor presented in PAW. For consistency, the set editor should match.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sequence Number management in a replicated DB2 system

Today sequence numbering in a DB2 subsystem that is being replicated to a secondary site needs to be managed outside of the replication support manually by the customer. Guidance has been given to use odd/even numbering on one side and the other. ...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration