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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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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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SQL Tuning Services and full support of Security mechanism 18

We are about to finish the installation of SQL Tuning Services in our sandbox environment. What we learnt last week from Xuqin Zhao at the IBM lab is that the product currently not fully support Security mechanism 18, especially for db2_authid_R -...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Extend Activity Tab to optionally include Session Tracing for example Read

Currently session tracing can be enabled that will track complete activities on an object including any access to an object page that a User makes. For clients that wish to record this and review access they must interrogate the generated logs. In...
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Enable reading NUMBER(1) columns in New Oracle CDC stage as INTEGER rather than BYTE

There is an existing CI in the old system for this; adding it to the Ideas portal for customer visibility. StreamSets documentation explains that we convert Oracle's Number type to SDC data types based on precision and scale, converting NUMBER fie...
3 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Statements Event Monitor should include UOW (transaction commit) to give similar capability as a db2 z/os trace

When trying to diagnose an online transaction problem, I could not find a way of tracing the transaction with an Event Monitor to include the implicit commits of the XA Transaction (XA-PREPARE, XA-END). I raised ticket a ticket with IBM (mentioned...
4 days ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Under review

We need pending_reasons and combined_res_req fields to be present in lsb.stream events

We need this fields to be present in lsb.stream events. - Job Pending Reasons - Combined Res Req
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 0 Under review

When setting LSF_STRICT_CHECKING=N, an option is needed to suppress the warning messages during reconfig, ckconfig, or mbdrestart.

Customers hope to waive those relevant warning messages to avoid the management process.
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Pipeline parameter modifications are not reflected in associated jobs

Modified pipeline parameters are not automatically reflected in associated jobs after publishing a new version of the pipeline. This presents a challenge when attempting to make parameter changes to a large number of associated jobs which instead ...
8 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Support for complex Git Repos for WCA4Z Understand

Today you need to manually add all folders from a Git Repo if you want to synchronize to a WCA4Z Understand/AD project. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.3?topic=commands-iv-use-cases-best-practices . We need a way to specify root folders, and ...

All LSF messages and errors outputs

Hello LSF team, It would be extermely helpful to get all the output messages and errors the LSF commands provide - standard commands such as bjobs, bsub, bkill, bconf and bmod. For example, in case of bconf when cluster needs to run badmin mbdrest...
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Documentation 0 Under review