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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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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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db2start of a running instance should reload/restart configuration without interruption of current sessions

Sometimes dbm configuration changes are not active immediately and require a full instance restart. E.g. adding an SSL port and config updates of the db catalog changes in SYS*_GROUP ... It would be great, if a db2start command is issued while the...
about 5 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

REORG Option to set Return Code for drain failure or deadline

At present we have to manually intervene every time a REORG fails with a DRAIN FAIL or DEADLINE hit, because the job finishes with RC8. However, these scenarios are both common and expected BAU situations - so we would like to handle them automati...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Super Coffee Corporation Pte Ltd

Additional code for 'Define Local Text'. Currently only 20 codes. Request to have additional 15 codes or unlimited.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

Add an option to DB2 for z/OS utility REPAIR

The Repair-Utility has almost all features to fit a pageset, copied from one DB2 sub system („Source“) into another („Target“):· REPAIR LEVELID to prohibit downlevel detection· REPAIR CATALOG to alter the DB2 catalog to accept some pages...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PAW API - access to selector widgets

We would need access to the PAW components and objects using an API in order to:- retrieve the dimension elements and subsets selected in the PAW selector widgets - generate an URL using these parameters- open a CA report inside of PAW When using ...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Copy other users my folder content to team content

As an administrator , while moving code from one environment to other or upgrading, we need to copy the user's my folder content into public folders/team content and move it back to my folders after the code deployment. I dont see this option in 1...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a map/flow chart of programs based on what you might want to grep, like a structure, function, header, or other piece of text

A huge swathe of time is spent doing greps, opening files, looking for references when trying to identify code changes that need to be made, files that need to be rebuilt, or in trying to architect a new solution. To save time, would be wonderful ...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Allow functional admin users to create or update existing chores without ADMIN rigth

Avoid functional administrators to be able to update the codes (TI processes, cube rules, security) by removing the ADMIN right but by doing that, functional admin are not anymore able to update/create chores, which is very important in their acti...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need a Db2 option to return control (and not wait) if the maximum number of threads is already reached

We've seen cases in z/OS DFSMS OAM where the application invoking OAM can use up the available Db2 connections/threads so when OAM goes to process their request, there are no longer any threads available resulting in a deadly embrace. Typically th...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Content security policy value for Inspector is not proper

Recomended Controls : it is recommended to 1. support standard content security policy header 2. avoid the unsafe-inline directive 3. avoid the unsafe-eval directive 4. never specify a wildcard(*) as the default policy 5. never specify a wildcar...
9 months ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review