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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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Allow a Db2 z/OS Server to request clients set other JDBC Data Server Driver parameters, such as minTransportObjects or maxTransportObjects

In FL502 of Db2 13, IBM offers MODIFY DDF with the "RQSTWLB" option which allows the Db2 server to tell clients to enable Sysplex Workload Balancing (enableSysplexWLB=true) as long as the client doesn't explicitly set WLB to "false". It would be b...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Capability of disabling file download/upload for storage volumes

Update 03/28/2024 Promoted to ICPD-1520 scheduled for v5.1 Disabling uploads to storage Volumes completely across all users is possible quickly. This should be done in 5.0.x releases by simply adding a configuration in the backend. However, I woul...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

Db2: Recovery of Mainframe Db2 databases without applying changes.

When the DB2 is performing a recover it uses log and copy files, it may be some sitations where the log contains changes that we dont want to restore. For exemple we may have inserts made by an authorized program and also updates performed by an u...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support integration with a secret management solution like HashiCorp Vault

Allow to save secrets (password, private key, certificat) per user allowing access to external services (WebAPi, files, etc.) other than just databases.
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

FAP Initial Publish Process Improvement

Currently, every time that FAP goes into Error State (which has been happening more often than we would like), we have to start an Initial Publish to put it back up, which takes a lot of time to complete (from 2 to 5 hours in some cases), and it s...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

IIS IDR Integration via KAFKA

DataStage:Kafka Connector in Information Server 11.7 does not support the use of schema registry or Avro JSON serialisation/deserialisation. IIDR (CDC) for Kafka on the other hand, produces Avro JSON serialised records into topics as default. Usin...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

Write JGate messages to Trace Browse

When using JGate we currently need to look in multiple logs in order to put together a complete picture of what happens during a given transaction. We would like for JGate to have the ability to write messages back to the trace browse on the calli...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add another option to the Workflow Stage Property Access Control that would go one step future than the "Read" option, which would prevent unassigned Users from editing relationships between Objects.

In the current version of the OpenPages Workflow Stage Property Access Control, the "Read" (non-participants can view but not edit a task at this stage) works in only allow Assignees to edit the record. Non-Assignees do have read-only for fields o...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration