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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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Send a notification when changes in access control for admin users are made

We would like to be able to configure to receive an email notification when changes in access control are made for Admin users. This would assist in ensuring traceability for users with admin rights
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

User management auditing

Our auditor is asking questions like 'Can we see that user X is locked or removed from DB2 when he left the company'. There is no way to see a lock date or create or remove dates on account that are created through the web console.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Pls make GoOffice signon to formbased secured Cognos Server via double click on environment tree, just like ribbon bar

Problem Description: GoOffice Signon behaviour inconsistent - Signon using RibbonBar = OK - Signon using Right Click on Environment = OK - Double Clicking Environment = NOK Problem Solution: Feedback from dev: This is by design and currently it ca...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

db2expln output with XML format.

The db2expln utility provides a plain text file only. Sometimes, OPTPROFILE can be added to tune some terrible SQL. The OPTPROFILE is XML format, but many users is not used to it. If XML format is supported as an option of db2expln then it would b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Remove CHAR Space Padding In ODBC Driver 4.10

Other drivers (Informix JDBC / Open Link etc) have the ability to automatically TRIM trailing spaces from character fields - we badly need the same feature applied to ODBC. We note that the VARCHAR / NVARCHAR equivalent has just been added to ODBC...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Shorter Suffixes for from precompiler generated COBOL-variables

In older versions of DB2 the COBOL-variable for VARCHAR-columns was:nn VARCHAR-COL1-X 49 VARCHAR-COL1-LL 49 VARCHAR-COL1Today the suffixes generated by the Db2-precompiler are much longer and lead to problems if the column-name, which was extended...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

AMOS SPSS graphics

I want to analyse SEM on my SPSS 26, but unable.
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Prepend machine's name to Assert files written to DUMPDIR

Scenario: The customer site uses a single network mount for DUMPDIR across hundreds of servers. Impact: difficulty in identifying AF files generated by specific servers. Current workaround: search online.log for all "stack trace for pid" strings...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Recovery option in PAW to recover a deleted folder

Recently I accidently deleted folder (and of course everythinf in it) from PAW. I opened a case in IBM Cloud Support to ask them to recover it but even they said that it's impossible to recover the missing folder. So it's gone. So I'm asking some ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

have the latest DOcplex package pre-installed

Hi, the docplex packages in python 2.7 or 3.5 are out dated. I find out when i tried the latest tutorial of DOCPLEX in DSX would be great that IBM package are up-to-date
about 7 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists