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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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Modify Accelerator List tasks output to be similar to functionality of same in Data Studio

In Data Studio, the initial list tasks window can be moved so that it doesn’t preclude or obstruct information and the window includes much more viewable data on the initial screen before expanding or resizing the window; also, the data columns, n...
28 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Admin foundation: Missing detailed information for running loads

We would like to add monitoring capabilities for running loads in Admin Foundation. Currently it appears to be less detailed than they were previously in currently obsolete DB2 Studio. In the current list task in Admin foundation, we can only see ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Add UI Support in Db2 Administration Foundation to Register New Db2 Accelerators

This enhancement would be extremely useful because, throughout the lifecycle of the Db2 Accelerator product, it is essential to be able to add new accelerators in a simple and user‑friendly way. Additionally, Db2 Administration Foundation is the o...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 2 Under review

Bring MATLAB interface back for CPLEX

Please bring back the MATLAB interface for CPLEX. We rely heavily on this feature since toolboxes we use are Matlab exclusive.
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 35 Future consideration

Update process so all new modules are delivered/maintaned by SMP instead of during deployment

SMP is a better way to manage and be aware of change. Having deployment processes creating them leaves more opportunity for them to become out of sync with the SMP delivered components.
28 days ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Submitted

Provide a command or function to identify active users (or at least last activity times)

It would be very useful to be able to tell who is actively using Zowe (and this is really more Zowe but opening for DB2 ADF because there is no Zowe option) and/or UMS/ADF/SQL Tuning etc. to identify who whould be impacted should we need to take t...
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

IDAA Admin Services: Unable to administer IDAA due to client application name db2jcc_application

At our firm we block any transaction that tries to connect with a non compliant application name: example: db2jcc_applicationWe use dsn_profile_tables for this. Part of the IDAA Admin services also runs with db2jcc_application therefor we are unab...
2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 1 Submitted

Support symbolic links (that use systems symbols to dynamically change values) for installation/configuration mount points

This really should have been part of [DB2AE-I-15] and[DB2AE-I-16] and applies to ALL PARTS of the Zowe/UMS/ADF/SQLTuning etc. solution.This is necessary to simplify deployment of new releases and maintenance levels. Currently there are processes i...
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow to execute stored procedures from the Explore Objects list or RUN SQL

Application developers and DBAs execute stored procedures directly from Data Studio, Toad for DB2, DBeaver etc. interfaces but it is not possible in DB2 Admin Foundation therefore not very helpfull.
11 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Please improve the quality of the grpahical output for Visual Explain.

Since Data Studio is now extinct the only way to generate a visual explain graphic is by using DB2 Admin Foundation or VS Code Developer Extension. Unfortunately, the quality of the graphical output for Visual Explain is like something from the 19...
11 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review