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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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DB2 lock escalation should be able to break-in into UOW running REL(DEALLOCATE)

At DB2 12 CERT (V12-CERT-2017) we discussed the following scenario : Changing CICS work to run REL(DEALLOCATE) from REL(COMMIT) was made possible in DB2 11 as BIND and DDL can now break-in. The change should give a CPU-reduction. However running b...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Remove 'Idle timeout' from IBM Controller cloud environment

The new IBM Cloud environment has the ridiculous setting that users are kicked out after 15 minutes being idle.Users cannot logon anymore and can not report there data. IBM will rapidly lose customers when this is not solved. Unacceptable that thi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Request to convert classic partitioned to UTS PBR by partition

Would like to see if it could be considered to perform an alter classic partitioned tablespace and then reorg by partition instead of the entire tablespace. While I agree it may be more housekeeping, some of the tablespaces we eventually will need...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Backup/Restore all the services at one action

To backup/restore procedure for CPD has some steps and it is complicated. We hope we can backup/restore each pods, services, whole system including storage at one action ie Web UI.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

lock event monitor runs under first-connection-user

lock event monitor takes authID in the database (e.g. as seen via list applications views) of:The first user that connects to the database.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Submit sub-groups

In Cognos Controller it's possible to submit (close) company reporting for a specific closing version, defined in general configuration. In larger groups next step is often, closing of groups/subgroups (including other journal types than the compa...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Unit of Work - KCOP Commit operations

Source is --> ZOS Target is --> Linux Kafka using Confluent Bank of America is the client and they want our kafka message to be like their sample message below that client mocked up for the transactional commit : { 'Key {"CONT_ID": " 0739126...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Support of Differential Refresh on DB2 for IBM i

To support differential refresh on DB2 for IBM i. Truncating tables on IBM i is very difficult given the locking mechanism and locking requirements the TRUNCATE or CLRPFM has on that platform. This makes Differential refresh a great alternative to...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Set DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION on the stogroup level

We would like to have an option to set the allocation of a FS at a SG level to fast pre-allocation. We have large DMS temporary tablespaces that on a failover to our remote site, we rebuild from scratch. when rebuilding a large DMS temp FS (800GB)...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add Effective Memory Utilization to All Statistics Tables

RTM maintains a consistent set of ETL's across multiple dimensions. It is the same table structure for all of these ETL's. However, a key metric is missing from the ETL's and it's the effective memory utilization. In other words sum(max_memory) /s...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration