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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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Tools Customizer library includes NEW and OLD BIND jobs

Tools Customizer library includes both the NEW and OLD BIND jobs.This is confusing to the customer, as it is not clear which BIND jobs need to be run.
6 months ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide metadata that is not applicable to the component

You want to have the ability to hide metadata that is not applicable to the component being edited: term, rule. You only want to see what is applicable to the subject to avoid typing errors. Seeing metadata that is not applicable to a subject gene...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

zLinux Support for IIDR VSAM Remote

Global Payments requests to have an S390 ZLinux Build for IIDR VSAM. Currently DB2z has zLinux support, but Global Payments also has IMS and VSAM, and would like to include both IMS and VSAM support. This includes the windows management console to...
6 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

zLinux Support for IIDR IMS Remote

Global Payments requests to have an S390 ZLinux Build for IIDR IMS. Currently DB2z has zLinux support, but Global Payments also has IMS and VSAM, and would like to include both IMS and VSAM support. This includes the windows management console to ...
6 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Dimension dropdowns in Cube Viewer to include sub menu for Sets

Users are often times face with a view that has a pre-configure set assigned to it. They may click on the arrow to see more members but not find the relevant members there. Typically they want to change the set and select a member from that set. C...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Application connections storm slow downs the DB response

I've been assisting with an ecommerce site. During typical days, let's say non-peak/low volume of orders, the DB response is always good. However, the DB response time slows down for a few seconds, notably during peak season/high amount of orders....
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Future consideration

Email notifications on Reporting Framework Generation status in IBM OpenPages

Why it is useful? Generating reporting framework generation in IBM Openpages takes a longer time from 4 hours - 8 hours or sometime even more upto 40 hours. It is not possible to keep monitoring whole time during the process. Many times it gets fa...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Not under consideration

Enable EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias

Enabling EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias will be very useful for DBA's using both on Prem and Cloud environments. It can only be used by LOAD/INGEST/BACKUP/RESTORE at the moment. Adding the capability to store data on object storage in the cl...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

support LOB in IBM DB2 Analytics Analyzer for z/OS - IDAA

Rabobank had used his clobs in a varchar. When the inline CLob became available they converted their varchar to inline LOB. Now with the IDAA available they should move back to the varchar. Instead of IDAA supporting the LOBs.They want the IDAA su...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Defined risk list entry upload detailed audit trail

Currently when a file is uploaded to a defined risk list there is no indication on the audit trail of what individual entries were added or updated to such list.
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Not under consideration