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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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Support of MVS SMF logstream for DB2 utility : DSN1SMFP

At this time IBM recommend to migrate SMF dataset to logstream to have better performances and usuability. We have done that but when we try to use DSN1SMFP DB2 utility to read DB2 SMF records we have and abend : IEC141I 013-A8 We think this tools...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

A clean Environments selector list for IBM cloud environments

Hello, Every single day I need to select multiple environments from the IBM PA Home page (https://www.planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com/). My list is such that there are almost 20 environments, and it will only grow. In a support ticket (TS014673742...
almost 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REPORT RECOVERY - new syntax requested to externalise just the image copy and log datasets

REPORT RECOVERY provides the CURRENT and SUMMARY keywords but even for these options the job output is either very verbose (Unit of Recovery, SYSCOPY entries, Archive log datasets, volume numbers for the LOG datasets etc) or too little (just the v...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow CPP Change on Bulk Transition

We use CPP tags to show which investigator is assigned to a case, even if that investigator was not the last one to transition the case. When an investigator conducts a bulk transition, they are not able to change the CPP tag through the bulk tran...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

CP4D handling of users which are no longer authorized

If a Cloud Pak for Data user is no longer able to logon (removed from a AD group that is mapped to CPD group) then the user record in "Access control" should be marked as deleted. It should no longer be possible to authorize this user to any CPD s...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

Simple way to check consistency between DB2 and IDAA

When implementing data replication we found a number of tables showing different number of rows in DB2 and on IDAA (2 IDAAs installed with replication). To verify this we did as follows:- Disable table for acceleration in IDAA1- Run SPUFI with SEL...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

External Table support for Db2 running on Windows

Db2 running under Linux allows currently to use external tables. For testing, production use, migration and completeness those feature should also be available for the Windows (and other OS) platform. Especially as this is a potential replacement ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Enhance message 00F30034 with plan name

Enhancement of message 00F30034 with plan name in question. The message text today is"The authorization ID associated with this connection is not authorized to use the specified plan name or the specified plan name does not exist." Please add a va...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Ability to join EBCDIC and UNICODE tables in IDAA

We have a lot of EBCDIC and UNICODE tables in production, and in many cases those tables would have to be joined to execute our operational analytic workloads on IDAA. Altering the objects to make it work is an option since many of those tables ar...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration