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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 Load To Do Inline Image Copies Of LOB & XML Tablespaces

We have users running the Load utility and we require them to make inline image copies during the Load. We grant these users the LOAD database privilege so they can do loads with inline image copies. We don't grant these users the IMAGCOPY d...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

OpenPages Support external Oracle database

Customer deployed OpenPages in docker containers and using an external Oracle Database. They want to move to CP4D but external oracle database is not supported. IBM needs to add support for external oracle database.
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas 1 Under review

Add new Status for stopping Databases that will be Dropped or decomissioned

When you work for several accounts it's not easy to know whether a DB or TS has been stopped on purpouse or just due to some previous error. I think that some new status would be great, some Advisory STOP, something that doesn't allow people to us...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Re-Positioning of the Delete object Function

We had a scenario whereby an object was accidentally deleted via the Admin UI, exacerbated by cascade delete being enabled, meaning a large umber of objects were soft deleted. IBM do not currently support un-deletion should this arise meaning that...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Support for OCSP or CRL

Our auditors require that every SSL connection uses OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) or CRL (Certificate Revocation List). As far as I know, this is not yet supported for Db2 Recovery Expert. I would ask to consider making this posssible.
2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Prevent FastMap from stopping uploading at any error found on a record

The client would like to have a more quick and efficient way of massively uploading data. Actually Fastmap checks one by one all records to be uploaded, applying its out of the box controls, plus custom triggers controls and stopping every time it...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Avoid locking table at the start of a refresh

Currently DB2 z/OS Remote agent will try to lock a table, apparently to obtain the head of logs position, just before starting a table refresh. Although the lock is immediately released, in some customer environments it very hard to obtain this lo...
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

SSO (Single Sign-On) for ODBC connections via ActiveDirectory authentication

The current configuration of a SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication for a Windows workstation is based on GSSCSM, for which support will be discontinued in future Informix releases and is very complex and error-prone. Alternatively, ODBC connection...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Under review

Support for OpenAPI Specification 3.1.0

Swagger / OpenAPI 2.0 is very outdated and lacks numerous features that can only be handled with workarounds (e.g. supplementary documentation describing all instances/environments). Version Date Notes 3.1.0 2021-02-15 Release of the OpenAPI Speci...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

Make "Allowed group profiles" available in User API (/api/security/users/<<userid>>)

With CP4D 4.7.3 (Open Pages 9.0), Users are assigned with group profiles which are displayed in UI under "Allowed group profiles". But this information is not available in users API. It only has "Allowed user profiles". Without this using this API...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review