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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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TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

Competitive databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server along with others have data type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE but LUW does not. Our own DB2 on z/OS starting version V11.0 has TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Add support for Alma Linux

Our ask is for IBM support for Alma Linux as the underlying OS for CDC replication.
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Please log the number of bwaits processed per minute in "badmin perfmon view" and the current number of bwait's queued in "badmin show status"

Currently, we can see the number of total bwaits that have gone into the system since we have command debug logging enabled, but we have no easy way to know how many wait's are queued up or what the throughput of bwait commands are. We would use t...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Refresh : subset row

Hi, The idea is to have No limit for SQL length when we need to refresh a subset of rows . The code limitation for SQL length IS 1000 characters. Sometimes SQL code is shorter than this limit, no issue. For other usages we can have over 1000000 ch...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Generate button For data time Fields

Required Generate button For data time Fields in all Message types,Example:for system Message xys.015 generate button for From Time(FrTm) Field.
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

GitLab Integration (Scripts/Stream Version/Branch Management )

Users need to manage updating/reverting version/branches of scripts/data in CP4D projects.With limited feature in CP4DaaS, users cannot manage versions of their work products in CP4D projects. GitLab integration is required.(GitLab is preferable, ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

HADR Standby logarchiving

Hi, HADR standby databases do not archive log files. the recommendation is a shared filesystem or similar. Shared filesystems adds complexity in failure situations. This request is to enable the functionalty of logarchiving on the standby database.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Password less authentication or API to update password for CDC engine and Management Console

We need the following enhancements on CDC - (1) CDC engine for IBM iseries needs to support password less authentication like kerberos, or have an API that allows password to be updated. (2) CDC Management console, need to support password less au...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Job and query execution by predefined time intervals

Create the possibility of executing queries, jobs and other data selection operations by a set of predefined time intervals like "last hour", "last day", "last week", "last month", etc.. It should be possible to apply these predefined time period ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration