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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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Create a separate role for federation.

I tried the suggestions made by John yesterday and it seems to be working so here are two ways to enable user to use federation in self-service mode. 1. Grant user a sysadmin privileges which comes with elevated privileges. User can even make chan...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Creating a Level Filter within the reports so that you can say all Level 1s need to match & all Level 2s need to match etc.

Here below a proposal from Global Control to improve the application Cognos Controller. Can you please check with IBM if it is possible to include the functionality here below in the next version of Cognos Controller. Proposal:- At the moment all ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

nhancement Request - Provide the capability to override user mappings and set WLM group while running the query.

Enhancement Request - Provide the capability to override user mappings and set WLM group while running the query. We would like to request a feature add to bigql which provides the power to override user mappings to Work load in user hands and let...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

TS000930539:

"Consumer1 executing on a host(with special resource attribute) is not reclaimed and rescheduled on another host when Consumer2, requiring that resource, request allocation. Consumer 1 doesn't have any resource preference, so the expectation was t...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Support High Availailty with hot standby mode

IMS, in support of HA, supports the concept of rolling maintenance where the IMS systems would be shutdown one at a time so that changes/maintenance can be applied. Once applied the system is restarted and the next IMS system is shutdown until we ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Temporal Tables by default in vNext Db2 Optim Directory

We want to set up an automated purge of Optim Archives but would like to preserve the metadata about each archive so we can do time travel queries to track the lifecycle of our archives. This might, could or should be a requirement for records man...
over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Not under consideration

Field-level changes using temporal tables

We're using DB2 temporal tables (in BigSQL) to track history on some of our core tables, and have the following need from downstream systems that use this data. Is there a way to track column level changes using DB2 temporal tables to pull out w...
over 7 years ago in Db2 4 Not under consideration

Timestamp in IIDR for VSAM messages in GMT (not local time zone)

The timestamp in IIDR server logs is GMT. When we switch to BST, the timestamp is confusing as shows as 1 hour behind.
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Restrict application license usage on a per user basis - cross cluster

Provide the ability to configure a per user limit for application licenses. Once a user reaches this limit no additional workload can be executed which would result in additional licenses being consumed. The limit would include licenses consumed b...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Use Machine Learning

Using ML we can develop new features that could help customers to improve their happiness levels and IBM to get insights about each customer's feelings about the product and the company. Some of the key use cases where ML can be used for CDC are: ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration