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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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



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MDX Snippets to be supported

Just like with TI Snippets, developers often times have a repository of MDX snippets that they use when building sets and views. Being able to upload these snippets and use them in a similar fashion to TI snippets would be very useful.
4 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

parent folder has Full Control access, but one of its subfolders has restricted inherited permissions or limited View/Edit access

Within the "Shared/ABC" location, the user has "Full Control" access at the parent folder level. However, one of the subfolders inherits permissions but shows “View & Edit” access only. When the user attempts to grant Full Control access to an...
10 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Login Threshold Alert - Too many logins in one calendar day

An email alert should be triggered when a user logs in 12 times or more within a single calendar day. This alert should be sent via email to an email address we nominate and can configure as required.
11 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Change default settings for a few retry parameters to LSF proxyd

job submission contacts LSF proxyd to get token, this communication may fail for whatever reason but LSF proxyd provided following three retry tunings.LSF_PROXYD_TOKEN_WAIT_TIME LSF_PROXYD_NTRIES LSF_PROXYD_NOTOKEN_NTRIES Qualcomm would like to se...
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Not under consideration

Rate Limiting Mechanism for LWS

Currently, LWS (LSF Web Services) does not provide a built-in rate limiting mechanism similar to lsfproxyd. In high-load scenarios, where a large number of concurrent requests are sent to LWS, this can lead to performance degradation or service in...
17 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Not under consideration

An Admin Tool option where you can auto-generate CREATE TABLE SQL Statements based on IMS DBD Source code input

This would significantly simplify IMS to Db2 conversions at a time when IMS talent is becoming more difficult to find. The idea would require an "IMS DBD to Db2 Table Converter" option in the db2 admin tool, where you can paste IMS DBD source code...
20 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS Not under consideration

Enhancement For Chore Security to Allow Parameter Editing Without Process Modification

Current Feature: In IBM Planning Analytics, the existing administrative chore security roles typically offer two main permission levels with respect to chores: Read: Allows users to view chore details but not make any changes. None: No access to t...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Set Editor Insert a Dynamic Set with Descendents

I am trying to insert a dynamic set with Descendents and it does not work. Inserting with Descendents only seem to work in a fixed set of elements. I had raised a PMR TS021375634 and was advised to raise an enhancement request with regards to this...
29 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

DB2 HADR with Pacemaker: use systemd to gracefully takeover to standby before server shutdown

Using DB2 HADR with Pacemaker. Before a shutdown/boot of the primary server in a cluster (for planned OS maintenance or otherwise), a takeover of the databases should be executed on the standby server. This avoids a forced takeover. We would like ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Not under consideration

REORG utility does not fix UNLOAD and RELOAD task relation

In case of ALTER LIMITKEY the UNLOAD and RELOAD task fix relation could end up in the fact that REORG can use only one task for UNLOAD and hence one task for RELOAD. This impacts REORG utility performance. In our case one UNLOAD/RELOAD task versus...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Not under consideration