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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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Allow Logon to JDBC Gateway Console via RACF group instead of shared credentials

Currently the logon to each JGate console is via a single id/pw. These credentials must be shared by the support team which is not a best practice. When team members leave, all passwords must be changed (if that's even possible). If changing the p...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

One report should connect to multiple servers

As in TM1 Perspectives today, one report can connect to multiple servers. This is a requirement as we have multiple situations in which we DO NOT move data across servers. Instead, we create a report that allows users to see data across multiple s...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Gateway Server should be able to process batches concurrently.

The best TPS we got in gateway server was 150. Our largest file from a customer has around 600k transactions. With the current throughput from Gateway server it woulld take around 1 hour and 7 minutes to ingest those payments. As a result, we woul...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Future consideration

Add support to update "Last Login Time" of Linux OS for Db2 LUW

Db2 LUW on Linux OS only use auth and password module of PAM to validate and change password, but it didn't record the "Last Login Time" for the users on the Linux OS, so we don't know if the users are actually using the Db2 for data query. And th...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 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

Controller Web - Automatic refresh of Counterpart information, without having to manually press 'Refresh' button

Customer has found that (in Controller Web) the values/entries inside 'Counterpart' are not updated in real-time. This means that the information/figures displayed are wrong! ++++++++++++++++++++++ Example: When looking at company #1102, inside th...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Db2 V12 Add Column HIGH_POSS_FUNCTION_LVL To SYSIBM.SYSLEVELUPDATES

Want an easy why to know the current HIGHEST POSSIBLE FUNCTION LEVEL and to track history of HIGHEST POSSIBLE FUNCTION LEVEL. Currently we are issuing the command, parsing the output, and storing it in a Db2 tablle.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

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

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

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