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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 ...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 ...
about 2 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 4 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...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

The WCA chat should let the user up/down-arrow to cycle through recent input text, rather than having to scroll/copy/scroll/paste

Useful when experimenting to find a better prompt, because simpler for user than scrolling back to find the input they want to repeat or paste/edit to do something slightly different
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Not under consideration

Need to have Multi Factor Authentication in Reference Data Management

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

Ice berg table format and connector for datastage Infosphere Information server:Generic- 11.7.1.4

Hello Team, We have datastage 11.7.1.4 implemeted on premises on bare metal server. We have database on DB2 DPF IIAS 2C2S in RDBMS. Customer is planning to migrate DB2 RDBMS data to Iceberg table format via datastage to private cloud. If we can ha...
2 months ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration