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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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Possibility for the testing capabilities that can be used as other usage than compare monotith Cobol to Java/ Cobol from scratch to monolith cobol

The tools could be used for generating Cobol or Java test set for validating any kind of program, refactored or not with no purpose to Transform them with AI (could be a good point for VsCode because zUnit isn't on it). And if it's possible, compa...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information

CANCEL THREAD Enhancement - to cancel threads by specifying a SCOPE(ssid)

This will help in cancelling of threads running in any of the LPARs in a Parallel Sysplex. Currently, DISPLAY THREAD supports SCOPE(GROUP). So, this would be a good feature to have. These can be very useful during IPLs when some thread is holding ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IIS vulnerability related to Cognos required settings

IIS vulnerability: The concern regarding "Allow unlisted file name extensions" in IIS has been raised with us previously and has been reviewed by our Development team. Unfortunately our Development team have confirmed that at this time "Allow unli...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

FTM needs the ability to prioritize Distribution messages in order of the Processing Window the batches are assigned to

If a large number of files come into the system just before and just after the cutoff time for a processing window, depending on the makeup of the files, some files after the cutoff that will be assigned to the next window can be sent to distribut...
3 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Improve QWT to suggest missing join predicates when not involved in declarative RI

Need to improve the tool to advise against missing lead index columns in a join. More detail in additional detail section.
3 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Submitted

UX Improvements on Master Data Explorer UI

It will further support our business end users of MDM in navigating the Master Data Explorer. Furthermore, it will improve ALL end-users experience when performing advanced searches. Here are the specific improvements via feedback: - In addition t...
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

Expand DB CFG ddl_compression_def with adaptive option

The adaptive DB CFG extension would give us the opportunity to activate adaptive compression by default. At the moment it is only possible to activate the static camprosseion. Our idea is to set DDL_COMPRESSION_DEF to one of 3 possibilities: 1. NO...
3 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted

Absence of rate limiting

Observation: During testing, we observed that the application lacks a rate-limiting mechanism for login attempts. Specifically, we were able to execute more than 500 brute-force login requests without any rate limiting or blocking in place.
3 months ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Re-architect to not require permanent storage of userids and passwords for access

The current architecture of Tuning Management Services component of Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS requires a permanent storage of a userid and password in order to facilitate use of QWT. Our shop uses Multi-Factor authentication for human user...
3 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Remove or encrypt data that is stored in dashboard JSON specification when using a data element in the color slot of a visualization with color consistency turned on

This will prevent data security concerns when distributing packages that contain dashboards
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted