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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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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...
16 days 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.
16 days 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-...
20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 System profiles to allow exceptions

System profiles are being used to control applcompat levels for distributed connections. This is being done by trapping on the default db2 driver COLLECTION NULLID then setting the attributes to another collection using a higher applcompat. This w...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Need to have Multi Factor Authentication in Reference Data Management

We need multi factor authentication in RDM for improved security
about 1 month ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Add a comment or description for TM1 Dimension elements for Contributor Web app in Planning Analytics

Business Partners or Customers looking to Add a comment or description for TM1 Dimension elements for Contributor Web app in Planning Analytics. When User mouse hover the Dimension element they want see the comment or description of each dimension...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make it easier to achieve advanced data engineering tasks within the UI instead of using Groovy

Currently many advanced tasks requires us to jump out of the standard UI capability and directly into Groovy. It would be worthwhile to consider if these can be done in a UI like framework and still wrapped into a single stage for execution. This ...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Not under consideration

Allow application to decide what to do when a timeout occurs (-911 vs. -913)

In time-critical processes, it can be important to be able to react to timeout conditions in Db2. In Db2 V13, there is new functionality that allows an application to override the default timeout setting (the CURRENT LOCK TIMEOUT special register)...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allowing Calculation Accounts to by run by Closing Versions

When running Calculation Reports, Users need to select journal types one by one manually. They would prefer to be able to select all the journals per Closing version instead so that they are sure nothing is mis-selected or left out. This report is...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Provide one Db2 message to indicate that GRECP and LPL recovery is complete across a Db2 data sharing group.

We use automation to drive our disaster recovery processes to reduce the recovery time and remove human interaction. We have been running into issues with starting software products that require access to Db2 before it has completed GRECP and LPL ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration