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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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External Table USING Options

Need to be able to create external table objects using all the "USING" options when writing to the file. The best example is that (VAR)CHAR type objects need to be written with "quoted" values (e.g., 'ABC",'DEF' written to the file instead of ABC,...
1 day ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

LISTDEF (like) utility

This is required so that the ability to perform various utilities (e.g., REORG) on multiple objects (tablespaces and/or tables) can be performed utilizing a list of objects.
1 day ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Image COPY utility

Need an image COPY utility so that individual tables and/or tablespaces can be backed up. This is required so that an object can be restored to the COPY that was taken without bringing HADR down.
1 day ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

IDAA - Db2 Accelerator for z/OS - MFA implementation similar to HMA (HMC)

Regulatory requirements are requiring our organization to work with all vendors and try and have all products and tooling that requires logon and password to be MFA compliant. Recently we implemented IDAA on Linux One and our IDAA and Hardware tea...
1 day ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

IIDR CDC for Db2 for zOS Remote Source instance creation issue

During the CDC installation process, where the ./dmconfigurets tool is used, there are some options that can be entered as input, although they are quite limited. The need is to make the tool as flexible as possible and, allowing it to change the ...
3 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide one Db2 message to indicate that GRECP and LPL recovery is complete across a Db2 data sharing group.

We use automation to drive our disaster recovery processes to reduce the recovery time and remove human interaction. We have been running into issues with starting software products that require access to Db2 before it has completed GRECP and LPL ...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Possibility to use threshold for Real Diff. (=transaction currency amount) in IC reports

When running the Group/Reconcile/Intercompany Balances Report we are only interested in the Real difference, i.e. the difference in the reported amount between a debtor and a creditor in the transaction currency . The IC report includes however bo...
26 minutes ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Patch for the IBM DataStage Connector, to support SalesForce API version 62

SalesForce has upgraded their API to version 62, therefore we need a patch for the Salesforce connector to be able to use the 'Browse objects' functionality when defining the data source. New development from SalesForce cannot proceed until this i...
about 5 hours ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Error Log for Processes should open in own tab rather than a pop up

Currently when you view Error Logs for Processes it only displays in a pop up window. If you have a couple of errors to investigate you have to keep selecting it. It would be more benefical if it were to open in a tab similar to the way that the S...
about 5 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted