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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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Usability issues when taking the Saved Results from a compare and generating an exclude with multiple commands (panels ADBPCRS and ADBPCEX case TS004429158)

Please review case TS004429158. This is #2 on the list of items in the case. "2) Saving the items found in the "saved compare results" is not working on first try. It's taking multiple times (about 5) to get all items added to the excludes....
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Adding members from the same hierachy to Context Filters removes Page Layers members

I have a case against the samples where we have two report pages each with a cross-tab driven by a separate query. On page 1 I add a few members from Order Method in the Page layers section for Page 1. Then on page 2 I add a few member from Order ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report sharing functionality

Description of Request from customer: ""We currently have 100 Advanced Business Authors and end Septemberwe're going to add additional 50 Business Intelligence Users. This willprovide 150 users with content creation capabilities. The purpose ofthe...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Granting Navigational Access instead of full Read access to Business Entities above Security Context Point

Consider the below Business Entity hierarchy: Level 0 BE -> Level 1 BE -> Level 2 BE -> Level 3 BE If a users security context point is /Level 0 BE/Level 1 BE/Level 2 BE/Level 3 BE, then the user can still access the details of all the to...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Not under consideration

TERM_ORPHAN_SYSTEM or "-ti" bsub option not killing all orphaned jobs

The customer is expecting LSF to distinguish job killed when pending (NEVER_RUN) and job killed after started. A job cannot be treated as "exited" if cancelled while pending. exit/exit status/exit code are for a running process.In LL, job has a st...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

DB2 Partitioned Indices Order Preservation and Performance

GTECH is in the lottery and gaming business. They use DB2 as a competitive advantage in their offering. They are an IBM SW Reseller. They are always looking at new ways to leverage DB2, DB2 Blu, DB2 Merge/Backup,IBM Replication IIDR, to gain compe...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ldap setting to force username to lower - Hadoop requirement

We have alpha numeric user id's which AD returns as Upper case example 1. when you look up a user "b1234", AD returns "B1234" 2. the cloudera cluster spss analytical server is trying to inter-phase with forces all user id to lowercase 3. When use...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 1 Delivered

Additional DB2 MQListener Enhancements

We are about to see a ramp-up in the use of the DB2 MQListener in our production environments serving key application/business channels. We are requesting several enhancements that will improve usability and availability to the business process se...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Do not block DDL on RCAC-protected table if rule not affected by change

after alter add column RCAC rule must be dropped and recreated, even if new column is not part of rule IBM perspective: In our ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN documentation it says: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.5.0/com.ibm.d...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Improving the DBD management design

We had a Db2 load job run that used a load control dataset with 1,764 “INTO TABLE” statements run against a database that had one tablespace with 1,366 tables having 1,306 indexes. The DBD length = 2628728. When the job was run, the SYSDBDXA tab...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration