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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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OnBar selective space backup restore allow non-backup spaces online but empty

Most of our customer base rely on selective space OnBar backups. As 99% of our customer base have been used a concept called Copy live database to a test database under the same instance (obviously, with different database and DBspace name) for ev...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Formatting Inheritance

Have conditional Formatting created in a PAW cube view apply to the children of a consolidated element.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IIDR QREP ASNMON enhancement from ICBC

After install ASNMON, ASNMON will show all history alert information in the first start, ICBC expect to use any command or parameters to suppress the history alert while start, only show the current alert information.
about 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Field-level changes using temporal tables

We're using DB2 temporal tables (in BigSQL) to track history on some of our core tables, and have the following need from downstream systems that use this data. Is there a way to track column level changes using DB2 temporal tables to pull out...
about 6 years ago in Db2 4 Not under consideration

Alter IX / TS page size at individual partition level

For MSOR application: For very large TS / IX with thousands of partitions, deployed in a 24 x 7 environment, the restriction of having to alter page size at the TS / IX level rather than by individual partitions is unrealistic for customers. The c...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Index-Only tables

request, xref MR1113081118 For a table where all columns are used in the primary index, allow only the index definition rather than having to define tablespace and indexspace, or have the table use an index access like process, rather than a table...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS v10 - Change the ALTER native_SQL_proc REGENERATE statement to accept APRETAINDUP, APREUSE, and APCOMPARE options.

This change needs to be made so customers can REGENERATE NSPs in DB2 Version 10 for VSCR and potential CPU savings without changing access paths. Furthermore, the same reasons used to justify adding APRETAINDUP, APREUSE, and APCOMPARE options to t...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Timestamp in IIDR for VSAM messages in GMT (not local time zone)

The timestamp in IIDR server logs is GMT. When we switch to BST, the timestamp is confusing as shows as 1 hour behind.
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Classic CDC/ IIDR for VSAM needs to send only needed data for Replication

Classic CDC/IIDR for Vsam capture is sending the before values for all fields in source VSAM datasets.This adds significant overhead. The capture needs to send the before and after values of the key column and before and after image of the changed...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Allow commonly used Entities and Intents to be flagged for global use across multiple workspaces.

Similar to system entities, allow the creation of user defined 'global' Entities and Intents that can be deployed across multiple workspaces but only need to be maintained once in a global library. Examples being Intents/Entities for, yes/no optio...
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Planned for future release