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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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Have to flip back and forth between Flow Designer and the Desktop Client

We are wondering if there is a patch already for this or if we can request an enhancement for something we see when using Flow Designer. Because we are building jobs in flow designer and using the Hierarchical stage, which can only be used in Flow...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Timestamp/Time values in CDC (Source: DB2 / Target Kafka)

In our shop we've got a history-concept for our db2-data, using valid-from and valid-until timestamps. a lot of this timestamps contains time-values 24:00, for ex. '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000 (or also other timestamp with time 24:00, eg 'jjjj-mm-d...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Moving only a single partition with AMT procedure for online reorg

Since the performance of inplace reorg per partition is too slow, customer want to use AMT procedure for online reorganizaiton. However AMT can specify table level only, not partition level.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Record all failures into RUNREPORTS including when password expires

Currently - the report failure will only get logged into the RUNREPORTS table if the report server had received the request. If there was a failure beforehand, for example if the password had expired, you will not see the failure in the RUNREPORTS...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of security managament in Datastage

Currently, Datastage is offering different roles: DataStage Operator, DataStage Super Operator, ...(full list available here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZJPZ_11.5.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.found.admin.common.doc/topics/c_wdisad_WebSp...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Allow comments for alternate hierarchies

When bringing in an alternate hierarchy to the view, I'm unable to enter any comments
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

search for strings within the SQL Statements in the SQL Text Column

For us, the web UI is the main interface to interact with Db2 Query Monitor. A functionality should be implemented that makes it possible to search for character strings in the list of displayed sql queries (e.g. search for the table name). The ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Color-coding for exceptions and alerts in web UI

For us, the web UI is the main interface to interact with Db2 Query Monitor. While the ISPF interface implements color-coding for exceptions (yellow) and alerts (red), this is not available in the web UI. For better usability, visibility, and func...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Select multiple KCOP user exits per subscription. CDC for Kafka

Currently, CDC for Kafka allow only 1 KCOP user exit to be select per 1 subscription. Customer would like to select multiple KCOP on the same subscription such as; Arvo live audit exit with Source and Target topic mapping exit.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration