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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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UNLOAD Utility

The ability to UNLOAD a table (including using SQL) is required. Additionally, the ability to UNLOAD from an image COPY is required. We need the same type of capability that is available in Db2 for z/OS. We copy/migrate (via LOAD) data from one en...
6 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

REORG Utility

The REORG utility (or a new utility) needs to be redesigned so that concurrent application modifications can continue while the REORG utility is running. This needs to be a TRUE "REORG" such that the data is unloaded in key order and put back in t...
6 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Allow application to decide what to do when a timeout occurs (-911 vs. -913)

In time-critical processes, it can be important to be able to react to timeout conditions in Db2. In Db2 V13, there is new functionality that allows an application to override the default timeout setting (the CURRENT LOCK TIMEOUT special register)...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

If QWT and SQL Tuning Services could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/OS. This would benefit remotely pipelines that want to use protect...
11 days ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Under review

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

If Db2 Admin Foundation could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/OS. This would benefit remotely pipelines that want to use protected user...
11 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 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 ...
2 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Content selector length in Workspace

when the book names are long, in the top bar to switch between tabs the names are cut and some dots are showed (attached an example) Ideally we would like to have the ability to change the lenght of the navigation area in the bar to allow to see f...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Submitted

Bulk move of object types and it's descendants

Current Situation:Currently there is no way we can perform bulk move of objects in the event of organizational changes OOB. Proposed Enhancement:We suggest to product to create an OOB functionality to perform bulk update and move of objects intuit...
6 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Allowing Calculation Accounts to by run by Closing Versions

When running Calculation Reports, Users need to select journal types one by one manually. They would prefer to be able to select all the journals per Closing version instead so that they are sure nothing is mis-selected or left out. This report is...
11 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration