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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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List Current Active users in MER, RMA & AO Facilities

Request for a function to list/display active users (currently logged on FTM users) in the FTM AO Facility . Display the currently active (currently signed in into FTM. Additional Details: Merva can use function DU (Display Users): AC00 MERVA ESA ...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Password encryption on QMF Server and Data Virtualization Manager and the JDBC driver.

Royal Bank of Canada and likely other customers have the following need. With DVM and the QMF Server and the JDBC Gateway the credential management system of Globals and the AVZDRATH job will be a security\auditing issue. 1) If the users are mappe...
over 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos Whitelist function with wildcards for subdomains

The idea is directly related to PMR TS005171959 and the feature request was recommended by the IBM. Currently the Cognos Whitelist function only allows a list of hard coded domain names e.g. "domain1.de, domain2.com, ..." If a user wants to send a...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Temporal Join Capabilities

The table reference syntax for temporal joins needs to be expanded to include effective ways to find rows across the tables that share time affectivity.The FOR BUSINESS_TIME / FOR SYSTEM_TIME syntax does not allow for references to columns from th...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Avoid the database, configured in HADR, on primary side experience an outage when the database on the standby side experience any problem.

We use Db2 pureScale in many environments using POWER System. For our disaster recovery strategy we use HADR for each database between sites. In a specific situation of when some standbys databases experienced HADR_FLAGS = STANDBY_RECV_BLOCKED, re...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

GW Dispatcher URI True Failover

We use Cognos BI and TM1 to provide critical financial reporting and planning to our C level and stock stakeholders. Providing a stable environment is key to Cognos continued success and adoption within the company. However with the BI GW not forw...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM.EntityFrameworkCore driver doesn't support GUID and BOOL data types with using db2 i series v7r1 databases

Hi, We are delevoping .Net Core project with EntityFrameworkCore that working with AS 400 i series Db2 V7R1. We use many data types but when we want to use bbolean or Guid field types Db2 says undefined name for boolean(bit) and Guid (uniqueidenti...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

Optim Db2 LUW - LOAD support in IXF format when there are XML data type fields in the table.

Optim does not support to perform a LOAD process using IXF format when there are XML data type fields in the table. Note that IXF is a more robust/compact format to exchange data between Db2 databases. See cases: TS003467645 and TS003290043 (two d...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Drill straight to file

It wold be great to be able to avoid the "preview" window if you want in the drill process (maybe an admin-setting in each process you set up). In order to get a csv straight away. When you right click a cell and select drill all available drill p...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically Update Hierarchies

Static StructureHierarchies are static; as you add or update elements in the underlying dimension, associated hierarchies are not refreshed. New dimension elements are not added to the hierarchy.Changed hierarchy attributes for dimension elements ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration