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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Disconnect User at instance level

within Architect, we have the functionality to right-click on an instance and disconnect a user from the instance. This action will disconnect the business user, and if any thread is running with the user's name, that thread will be automatically ...
16 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

In AVZSIN00 - for the Define Database section the NAME parameter 4 chars is a limit

The name parameter has a limit of 4 chars. It is the connection name that user can see on DVM studio. Our external databases have names with more character and to have to convert them to only 4 could be a limit.For example ORAT1SRV need to be codi...
25 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Knowledge Accelerators need to be multi-lingual enabled

Numerous clients require a more elegant approach to muli-lingual Glossary (Categories, terms etc... think-- ONE master Term - with Children that provide Translations...driven by a LANGUAGE selection when Viewing Terminology) support in our IKC pla...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Classification hierarchy visualization

1. adding classification relationship to a governance artifact and/or asset - The current view while adding classifications to any governance artifact/asset shows all available classification schemes and values in a list. - To better understand th...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Symphony support gcc 11.2 on Red Hat 7

We are upgrading python wrapper application to 3.9 with gcc11.2 on Redhat 7, and C++ app with gcc11.2 as well. We are expecting IBM can provide the compatible so file as soon as possible
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Db2: V13 Access Path regression: Tablespace scan regresses to nonmatching index scan. After turning this in as a problem, we were told that it was working as designed. Our suggestion is that the design is flawed.

We feel the design is flawed and strongly feel this is a bug. The only time a non-matching index scan should be considered versus the tablespace scan is when it can at least filter the result somewhat. There are ZERO columns in the index that matc...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow hotfixes to be deployed to FTM via using init containers without relying on persistent storage

Allow hotfixes to be deployed to FTM via using init containers without relying on persistent storage, it we'd like to be able to populate a /shared/gateway-server/hotfix and have it picked up during pod start time.
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate x-locks on CREATE INDEX DEFER YES to improve concurrency

This is similar to DB24ZOS-I-1114 and DB24ZOS-I-1689. When attempting to create an index with CREATE INDEX DEFER YES, there should be no need to lock packages that are dependent on the table. Requiring an x-lock doesn't seem necessary. With phase-...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Capture SQL Error Codes in Db2 COBOL Program Accessing DVM Tables

We are using a COBOL program to access DVM tables via an alias created on a three part name. If the program fails while performing a SQL call to one of the virtual DRDA tables, the program only receives a -1 SQLCODE. We would like for the program ...
2 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

IFI READ calls to be zIIP enabled

QREP CAPTURE use IFI READ calls to read the Db2 LOG . Usage of QREP CAPTURE will be cost effective , if IFI calls are zIIP enabled
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration