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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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log parameters and native query earlier

When my users run reports that run all day or repeatedly experience report failures, I want to be able to help them. In Cognos Administration, I enabled parameter logging by adding the custom setting RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG = true and enabled native q...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make TSA start DB2 under system.slice, in order to gracefully stop/takeover databases on shutdowns/reboots.

Since init was replaced by systemd as the linux main process (in 2014 !), it makes huge difference the way DB2 is started. At server shutdown or reboot, the user processes are all killed, and only then systemd starts to stop the services. This beh...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Delivered

Centrally manage hiding databases users don't have access to

Whilst you can hide databases in PAW and PAfE, they do appear to be separate solutions and not joined up. - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=wnim2-hide-databases-in-preferences - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analy...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Replace DB Link between Downstream and Prod Database for 19-C TDE through IDR CDC

AS a part of 19-C TDE through IDR CDC, it uses DB Link between Primary and Downstream to call the Dictionary Build back to the Primary. IDR currently utilizes the DB link option to make the process of issuing and retrieving the StartSCN from a new...
9 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Hide merged members

We have many entities in our database that have a high volume of merged records that make it difficult to review tasks for remediation. The work around is to scroll up and down and remove records from the records attribute section one at a time or...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Apply security restriction in Db2 table only via database connector tools (but not from database objects)

There are few use cases where Db2 table access must be restricted only from DB connector tools(eg; SPUFI, QMF or DSE in IDz or any other DB visualizer) but not from the database object itself. To explain further, we do have home grown tools(x1) us...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

ODBC Connection for Multi TM1 Server IBM PA Cloud instance, lock a specific Database to a specific DSN

In the Cloud: IBM PA can use Json Key and Simba ODBC for connecting to the on prem data. This works ok if you do not mind the Data tier in IBM PA showing all DSN connections to all Datasets and projects in on prem data. When you have a scenario wh...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Consolidated Database Availability (weekly/monthly) Report.

Data Management Console currently doesn't have a capability to generate a weekly/monthly "Database Availability" report of all the Databases that are being monitored. This enhancement needs to be added so that DMC can generate a report which shoul...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

PySpark Kernel unable to read/extract when connected to external database using Kerberos Keytab

IBM JRE supplied as part of Sym 7.3.1 + Conductor 2.5 is incompatible with current use-case Use-case: We have a client that uses Spark/Notebooks (PySpark kernel) to connect an external database via ODBC using kerberos. Whenever they try to connect...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 3 Delivered

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...
about 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration