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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 TEMPLATE switching for more data sets in REORG and LOAD

Allow TEMPLATE switching in the REORG TABLESPACE, REORG INDEX and LOAD utilities for the necessary work files. For example, small objects may only require data sets with DSNTYPE BASIC and large objects may require data sets with DSNTYPE EXTREQ or ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Implement Kerberos Constrained Delegation for LSF

currently LSF uses kerberos API "krb5_cc_retrieve_cred" to retrieve user TGT, details can be found:http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-latest/doc/appdev/refs/api/krb5_cc_retrieve_cred.html this API doesn't work for TGT created by constrained delegati...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Multiple TM1 Login Server functionality in PAW Admin Tool

If you're using TM1 authentication mode it relays on only one TM1 login server, and when the admin server related to that TM1 Login server goes down, automatically all connected TM1 Amin servers become unavailable. This poses a big threat to servi...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide Job Scheduling in Cognos on Demand

When using Cognos on premises a job can be created to execute multiple reports. Each report can be configured to meet output requirements for format and distribution. Reports can be run concurrently or in sequence. A single job entry contains the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Run reports into sharepoint location

Add option to export report outputs directly into sharepoint as target location so that users/teams can directly consume the reports from there.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS security; hide install SYSADM and SYSOPR from DSNZPARM; use RACF instead

In DB2 z/OS, no group and/or userids are more powerful than the Install SYSADM and to no small degree the Install SYSOPR. Yet, these userids and/or groups are easily found by anyone having access to a db2 subsystem and knowing the existance of DSN...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Using the TEST function, Need to Filter by Index Name or Table Name

Looking to convert an NPI to DPSI. Need a way to compare access paths of all SQLs that are currently using the NPI to What-if the NPI was not there (aka Virtual Index Delete). The TEST function (Dynamic Explain) currently does not allow filtering ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Make PAW LCM Improvements

LCM PAW seems half baked, suggest a rethink and a sit down with a customer who has the task to migrate between environments. Copies between environments from Shared to Personal, then the user has to Save as every Book so the permissions are not re...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Oracle thin client connection capabilities requiring specification of URL

We need to connect WKC to Oracle using Oracle Connection Manager using the JDBC thin client. This requires the ability to specify the connection URL with a significant string length. Currently when the Oracle connection type is specified there is ...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

New TurboIntegrator/Rule function to obtain an Unique ID

In our on-premise application, a tremendous number of TI processes are executed simultaneously, requiring to be identified uniquely in the system in order to avoir locks. Historically we used a combination of 'RAND()' and other information to gene...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration