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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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add part level to object profile and reorg profile discard screen

We run reorg discard utility monthly with our legacy job. We have large partition by range table spaces that have billions of rows and 100's of parts. Currently with the automation tool I need to edit the object profile for each table space to cha...
11 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

MANTA should script Data Lineage of PL/1 Program as same as Cobol!

Customer uses PL/1 with Db2-Commandos which should be Data Lineaged!
11 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Free up a job slot if lsfadmin suspends a job

We wold like to have the ability to free up a job slot when a lsfadmin suspends a job due to some valid reasons. In our case, we are trying to run a script to check if the user has reached the quota on their current run directory, and if they are ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

Data Server Metadata - Kerberos Connection

Kerberos, or other passwordless connections are becoming the standard authentication method for data sources. Data Servers are requirements to use web-based modelling. However, to pull metadata in a data server connection requires the user to have...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Population of V12 new added Catalog columns during activation of Function level V12R1M50 and avoid it later during executions of ALTER TABLESPACE because of contention of packages.

After you apply the PTF for APAR PI86123, the first ALTER TABLESPACE, populates any null attributes for objects created in function level V12R1M100 or earlier. When the one-time population occurs for an ALTER TABLESPACE statement, Db2 must quiesce...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Add ability to have multiple Q-replication targets on Db2wh

Currently on Db2wh, there is no ability to add multiple targets for Q-Replication. Please consider adding that idea as we have business case to implement such solution

Document that mipgap and absmipgap are no pure termination criteria but can impact the path Cplex takes in B&C

As discussed in support case TS007960403, Cplex parameters mipgap and absmipgap can impact the path Cplex takes during Branch and Cut. I suggest to document this because from the description of the parameters one can expect that these are pure te...
over 2 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

can we download the preview of data asset which is from a data connection

Please take a look at the screenshot in the attachment, the download icon is gray(unusable) when the data asset is from a data connection. Is it possible to make the download work for the data connection asset preview?
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

ask for adding "description" into the columns of data asset in Project UI

Please see the two pictures in the attachments: "describe 2": when we click on the data asset , we can see the "description" in the red borders. "describe 1": we hope that "description" also can show in the data asset overview columns which can he...
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Improve the way HADR retrieve light scan on standby deals with failures such as DISK FULL

When DB2 HADR Standby is behind 2-3TB, it retrieves all files from archives to active log file system and makes the file system full. Standby replays one log file at a time and hence, retrieving thousands of files ahead slows down the replays, mak...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration