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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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Quick navigation of hierarchies in Tiles

If you have set up a widget showing a hierarchy tree, when you double click on a hierarchy today it opens that level and it's children. A nice feature would be to be able to still navigate in the tree easily without first having to go back up the ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

UNION should automatically be rewritten to "UNION ALL" when it is logically equivalent

In the following query, the developer coded "UNION". Because it is part of a "WHERE EXISTS" subselect, replacing the UNION with "UNION ALL" will perform much better and deliver the same results: SELECT * FROM PDBR111.VCLI095_SELECT V01WHERE V01.AR...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

InfoSphere Data Replication for VSAM - request to remove the need of CICS

In some banking customers, OLTP server is pure IMS. They mix the use of IMS DB and VSAM files. The complete GDPS A-A solution need to replicate DB and VSAM to site 2. However, current VSAM replication need CICS been start in site 2 to apply change...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IIDR scraping from Oracle physical standby in fully decouple mode, no connection to primary DB

IIDR configured against standby DB in Active Data Guard configuration of oracle- no DB connection to Primary DB. IIDR should be able to scrape the logs at Oracle physical standby and all DB connections should be fired against the standby without h...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Support

Customer would like the DB2 Unload and Load Utilities to support Partition by Growth (PBG) tablespaces.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt data in transit to DB

per corporate audit finding connections from application must be encrypted, and connection strings modified to use encryption between application and database.
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Functionality already exists

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web - ability to use more than 13 periods for Data Entry forms

Currently, if you try to open a data entry form (in Controller Web) for period 14 or 15, then you get a message “Internal Server Error ... fsid STATUS: 500 ... Unexpected error”. It works OK if you open the same data entry form for period 12 or 13...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

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