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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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Create User Temporary Tables in round robin

Assuming that there is more than one temp tablespace with the same page size and 'IN TABLESPACE' clause is not specified in the DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE command, then DB2 optimizer should allocate the temp tables across all temporary tablesp...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

DB2 PureScale to Support Oversubscription of Storage in IBM Flash System

The IBM Flash System (FS7300) does such as good job at real time data compression that I am achieving almost 5:1 compression on one of my environments (31TB Written = 6.4TB Physically consumed). So, while it has 80% of the storage allocated to IBM...
9 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

New behavior added to DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT

SELECT CHAR(DECIMAL(1.92,15,2),',') FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1 For Db2 z/OS we use setting BIF_COMPATIBILITY = V9_DECIMAL_VARCHAR For this statement we get following results (for Db2 LUW we have parameter DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT set to NEW) : Database Value Da...
9 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Implemented the support for XA

The .NET core started XA support from .NET 7 but driver has not yet implemented the support for XA in our core package. Functionality is needed to support 2 phase commit in .NET Windows application
9 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

Enable License (LS) Visibility on Spectrum Application Center

We would like users to have visibility of the availability of solver license on LSF Application Center. We are using version 10.2.0.9 and were told by support that this feature is no longer supported. This is necessary as it enables users to have ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

Source DB CONNECTION should not be needed in an ETL project if its CONNECTION has been created in the CONNECTION section and run Data Discover process.

In the V2.1.0.2, user should be needed to create source DB CONNECTION in the ETL project even though the source DB CONNECTION has been created in the CONNECTION section without running Data Discovery process. (If Data Dicover process running for i...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 3

Configurable Sort Order for Fields in Bulk Update within Grid View

when performing a bulk update in the grid view the field order set within the grid view is not honoured. Instead the application sorts fields alphabetically.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Have multiple DV instances on one CP4D install

Currently, We can't deployment multiple DV instance services. This may bring some limits, especially for sensitive data. Please consider adding support for this. Our scenario needs to support multiple departments/groups using DV, and the related d...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Automate ingestion and activation of users

Traditional best practice approach to security is to leverage the existing enterprise authentication provider. This includes using enterprise authentication group memberships to both allow access and allocate data security. With the PAW interface ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration