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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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


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CDA Insufficient Access Authority when logging on

Ref TS003663019 - When using CDA there is no option to log-in with read-only access so the assumption is that any CDA user could add, delete, or update a subscription. This is inapproriate for a Production Environment hence why we are experiencing...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide DISPLAY command option to generate XML

The various DISPLAY commands in DB2 return a lot of useful data. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to store the output in a DB2 table. If every DISPLAY command came with an option that returned the output in loadable XML format, we could store t...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Owner and Giver to reside in different CIFs

Sample scenarios: An adult (parent, guardian) provides consent on behalf of a child. The child is a client, the adult is not. A company officer provides consent on behalf of an organization For both scenarios the following five cases are material:...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Hide password arguments which is invoked in instance of dsidocsvr

We need to fix the issue: Passwords are visible on operation system level when the process is running ( command uses the password as parameter ). Thanks For example: dsad1er 2359796 1 0 May 03 - 38:49 dsidocsvr UVHOME=/opt/IBM/InformationServer115...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

Need a flag to enable or disable Legacy administration console

currently if you are part of administrator role you have access to legacy administration console portal. However most of the features needed are available under Manage from 11.1.5 onwards so we want to hide this legacy console from our users.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Copy on Package but Allow for Development Using Dev Tool

We would like the ability to restrict copying on packages while still allowing users to develop reports against that package. We have worked with IBM Technical Support and tried many options (refer to: 33942,227,000) but not one of the options rec...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA - DBCS character errors on IDAA table after loading data

Converting Service Request 53184,L6Q,000 to an RFE. When EBCDIC DBCS characters are loaded to an IDAA table on a MIXED=YES subsystem, the double width space character x'4040' is converted to x'FEFE' for GRAPHIC and VARGRAPHIC columns. This causes ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bar particular DB2 group members from castout ownership

Currently the first member of a DB2 share group that lodges group update intent becomes the castout owner for that buffer pool. In the real world some LPARs can be significantly capped damaging write/update performance for the whole share group. W...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Tasks view adjustment for mobile

The chart appear misshapen and disconnected on Task view when rendered by mobile on vertical position.
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Spell Number Function

We need a way to turn numbers into words. For example, "2600" would become "Twenty-Six Hundred" We've got reporting requirements to print a check image and we need words for numbers on the dollars line.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration