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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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Improve the usability of the masking function

According to the manual, column masking has incompatibility with some SQL functions that we use a lot. In our environment, we have many abends with SQLCODE = -20478, example: SELECT CASE WHEN ST_EMAIL LIKE 'MARIA%' THEN 'OK' ELSE 'NOT OK' ENDFROM ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Needs more information

Spectrum LSF's k8s support

Spectrum LSF used to provide an adapter for k8s as a container orchestration to use with LSF's job scheduling as its add-on function, which is withdrawn now. The customer would like to restore it so they could improve portability/availability and ...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Needs more information

Options on disabling ciphers algorithms for CP4D Services

Will need the option to disable some crypto algorithms or be FIPS compliant as this is impacting our deployment security compliance for the organisation. As of right now, we do not have the ability to disable/removed the non compliant crypto algor...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Needs more information

2-Phase commit for JDBC driver to Postgres

We use a replication solution which utilizes DB2 LUW Federation as a link between DB2 z/OS (source database) and Postgres (target database). So the picture is as follows: SQL Replication 11.4 -Db2 z/OS 12 on mainframe, -Db2 LUW Federation 11.5.8, ...
8 months ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Needs more information

download user group, roles and permissions

to be able to download a list of all available user groups and roles to be able to see what has been set up and available to use that is more accessible than the current hover over pop up on each item. at the moment it is very difficult to see wha...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

REBUILD - After recovery of TS is NPSI improvement

Recovered SEMHNSA Partition 1 which has a NPSI. Rebuild has no idea that only partition 1 was recovered and rebuilds all the partitions for NPSI XEMHUNSA. Believe improvements need to be made to make the REBUILD know that only partition 1 needs to...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Needs more information

Request to have API's to give Details of the MDI/MDE Job Runs

We are looking for the API to list all the Job Statistics in the MDI/MDE Area. Referencing with current Log format in the Jobs run page Ex: MDI: "entity" : { "statistics" : { "discovered" : 2183, "discovered_with_children" : 2183, "submit_succ" : ...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
10 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 4 Needs more information

Autosuggest/autocomplete feature when typing in a dropdown field in WKC .

Autosuggest/autocomplete feature when typing in a dropdown field in WKC .Not able to perform fast search (by typing In field) this a usability issue. This is slowing down our users work.
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Customized abbreviation dictionary to improve data class assignment and searching for business terms

Capabilites similar to Erwin and other data modelling tools in which abbreviations can be expanded for search and for field name recognition. Ideally, each field could also have an automatic "expanded" or un-abbreviated alias. Column name ABS_VAL ...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information