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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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Add 'WITHOUT CURSOR HOLD' bind option

We have occasionally seen timeouts against DB2 catalog tables that trace back to long running threads from QMF for Workstation that are running WITH CURSOR HOLD
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Templates should support defered tape Mounts

We use a VTL for our Tape Environment. For a VTL it is recommended by IBM to use UNIT=(TAPE,,DEFER) in all Jobs. DB2 uses templates to generate JCL. In this templates it is not possible to code a DEFER parameter. Is there a way to solve this dilemma?
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

More user friendly and correct IC Reconcile Intercompany Balances report, if using large dimension/BA structure

See attached file with current report and suggestions to change the report to show correct and useful and a lot more user friendly information.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

CPD Service Catalog to add support to manage business partner license information

Business partners' services are listed in the Service Catalog. Once enabled, an administrator needs to apply license info that applies to the service. The administrator also needs to know how much resource units (or other metrics) are entitled and...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Add SAP HANA to Cloud offering

We want to connect to our extensive SAP HANA investment. The functionality exists for on-prem CP4D, and we want to have it for our SaaS offering. As we've made the transition to cloud and most new SAP customers are also cloud-centric, none are abl...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0

Performance Enhancements to the DataStage Siebel BCPX Component

System: DataStage Siebel BCPX Component Actor: Users requiring vastly improved performance in retrieving data from Siebel tables. DataStage will be used to extract data, components and relationships using the DataStage Siebel BCPX Component. Descr...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Data Stage Integration/Connectivity with Infor (https://www.infor.com/) source

Hello, Problem Statement: Recently we came to know from IBM Support that Data Stage can't connect to Infor using jdbc connector stage. I am submitting this new idea based on IBM rep's recommendation. Please see IBM case# TS008021248. Benefits/Valu...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Multi Temperature Storage support for pureScale

Alter tablespace using STOGROP is not currently supported in a pureScale environement. The request is relieving this restriction.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Allow better monitoring of DB2 Thread/Connection types

Currently there are various ZPARMs to "control" thread management (CTHREAD,MAXDBAT,CONDBAT,IDFORE,IDBACK,etc). These ZPARMS are upper bound limits of the number of each type of thread/connection that DB2 is configured with. There is very little in...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Enhance User reports

Roles by User Report contains a prompt to display individuals but will only show individuals directly associated to a security domain ( rather than listing the individuals within a associated group)
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration