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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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Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
about 2 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should respect privileges granted to Roles/Groups and not require privileges to be granted explicitly to Users

This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. While installing Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW, we received the following err...
21 days ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0

Snapshot from Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel

The ability to snapshot a cube view while working in PA for Excel is no longer available. The only option to go from the viewer to Excel is by exporting to one of the report formats. Although useful in many use cases, this is sometimes not realist...
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Efficient unloading from external tables to regular tables

As the focus has been shifting towards ELT and not ETL we would like to use the parquet ingest method on the NPSaaS. From the source to parquet, which is ingested through to external tables. All these features work good for now! However, now we ha...
11 days ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Connect to SAP Datasphere as a datasource for connection and for IKC.

SAP Datasphere is a new data warehouse from SAP competing with Snowflake, Google Bigquery, Azure Redshift, Db2 and other data catalog solutions for SAP data. Clients who are deploying SAP would use Datasphere for connecting, managing, cataloging a...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 1 Submitted

DB2 Developer Extension for z/OS - add ability to copy and import/export existing connections

Adding a Db2 z/OS connection requires optional parameters for SSL connections which are often missed when setting up the connection. Adding the ability to copy an existing connection would allow a new connection to be set up more quickly. The copy...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Default settings for PAW environment

Currently if the client has custom settings, these colours/fonts/sizes needs to be applied to each widget (taking time and a lot of maintenance). There is also a risk that if users create ad-hoc dashboards, that they use different settings than th...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
3 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Improve throughput of InSync - IBM Integrated Synchronization

Evaluation of the feasibility of data replication from a Datasharing to an IDAA be supported by multiple Log Reader Tasks (LRTs) / Log Data Processors. In order to achieve this, we understand that a specific LRT would be responsible for capturing ...
6 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Pixtral 12B - Multiple Image Support

According to the Model Card of Pixtral 12B (Pixtral 12B Model Card), there is support for sending multiple images in a single message. However, the WatsonX.AI API does not currently support this feature, resulting in the following error message: "...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review