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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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Multi-level category security

We have multiple primary categories with multi-level subcategories. The All Users group is added with the Viewer role by default. Because of inheritance, all subcategories are viewable by all users. In some instances, we need to branch the subcate...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Privacy Notice on OpenPages Login page

In readiness for GDPR compliance, the business need a privacy notice to be displayed on the OpenPages login page. This will take the form of some text that needs to be visible on the login page. A mechanism needs to be put in place that allows Ope...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

GRC Rich Text Editor Mutiple Issues

Description 1) On Policy Editor window when user maximize window using Rich Text Editor menu option and use X (close the window) - The editor window closes and put user on the policy detail view instead of back to the editor window. All the text e...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Allow the alteration to another bufferpool (with the same page size) for a specific partition.

When deciding on which bufferpool to place a tablespace in, I have found that different partitions have different requirements. when the "hotspot" of a table (that would benefit by being in a larger bufferpool) is at the end, putting the last part...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

QMF for Websphere - cache passwords

In our organization we have different sets of credentials for each of our Db2 for z/OS systems We need to write Procs that will pull data from several Db2 for z/OS Systems. This requires use to use the CONNECT TO command, but this calls for loggin...
over 6 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

LOAD utility should allow huge loads to run with out blocking transactional log files

Please let me explain more about how i look at LOAD utility.LOAD utility is a way to write data into database quickly by ignoring the traditional route into the system, like query processing insert/update/delete.LOAD utility will by pass many perf...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 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...
over 6 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

Provide "SQL Reference" product manual for DVM

(This IDEA item was written based on my own experience in DVM POC test at customer site.) So far, DVM does not provide "SQL Reference" kind of product manual which describes SQL syntax rules supported by DVM. Somebody said it is because DVM is con...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

stop offloading queries to IDAA when incremental update is no longer updating a table

need to accelerate OLTP DBs for IDAA. As we keep telling that we can now merge both OLTP-Operational queries together on Z., this is something that is already in our way to resolve. First thing they came up with was the fact that they need a way t...
about 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow editing X axis of violin chart

If I am making a violin chart for a variable where the values follow a certain order, for example, days of the week, I don't have a way to put the chronological order on the X axis.The same thing happens if the values of my variables are ranges, f...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration