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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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Value 00000 on variable &PART in TEMPLATE for partitioned by growth tablespaces

We would like that value of &PART becomes 00000 for partitioned by growth tablespaces on the template's DSN. The response on PMR 27187,999,838 is that this needs to be a RFE. As you can see in PMR 27187,999,838, we have processes that does a f...
over 5 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add retention policies to extract files

In Optim Test Data Management the Optim Extract file is only of use for a limited period and can contain sensitive information if it's the initial extract from a production system. Practically customers do not wish to, nor should they hang on to e...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

When exporting snapshot from IBM to Excel the first sheet is not named correctly

When exporting snapshot from IBM applications to Excel and the report has multiple sheets, the first sheet is not named (appended), rather the first sheet is the sheet "as-is" that the user sees in TM1 Web / PAW Websheets and thus does not get ren...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DSN_PROFILE_TABLE should work corrid/Jobname with IDAA

We like to exclude selectively jobs from runing on the IDAA via DSN_PROFILE_TABLE. Right now you can use AUTHID, PLANNAME, COLLID, PKGNAME, LOCATION but not CORRID (jobname). In our data warehouse application we have many thousend of jobs running ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Include a repeat counter for execution multiple times in Hierarchical stage.

Currently I know of a number of companies that are using the Hierarchical Stage (such as Walmart and Vanguard) for pulling data from cloud services such as ServiceNow or Archer. Because there is no looping structure within the Enterprise pallet (e...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

give RTCL download link on Connection Information page for customers who use the db2 CLP

Long term Db2-LUW users often use the db2 CLP (on Windows or Linux/unix) to run scripts. If those customers try out the Db2 on cloud offering, the only *matching* version of a Db2-client that is offered for download via the Connection-Info page is...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Decimal support for BE/NL in PAW

We are facing an issue in our Planning Analytics Workspace using websheets.We are unable to fill in decimal numbers in either format (e.g. 10.2 or 10,2).The sheets work fine in perspectives/PAX, and you can fill in the decimals there, but not in t...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

[HostFactory][RFE][PIMCO] Cloud GUI lack of requestor configuration

Hostfactory Cloud GUI lack of requestor configuration while there is service and providers
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

[HostFactory] Cloud GUI lack of searching function (PIMCO)

Currently, there is no search or filter feature for cloud host and request. There are more than 300 hosts and hundreds requests every day. Very inconvenience for users.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Planned for future release

Package Web Interface

When a developer specially anyone with limited knowledge attempts to try DB2 in a container or developer edition, there is no reference to documents and no GUI to work with. IBM websites and information/terminology I wouldn't call is easy to find ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration