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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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Allow to query and stop an object in one go to avoid STOPP

HSM allows to move DB2 page sets by stopping them and copying them and then starting the page sets again. HSM does this by DIS DB(...) SP(...) USE and a subsequent STO DB(...) SP(...). If in the small timing window between the DIS command and the ...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to filter data in a Grid view from same Business Entity

When selecting associated records (Eg: Selecting Processes under an RCSA), we would like to have the ability to restrict data from same business entity. Currently we can have filters but the filters cannot be dynamic to restrict data from same par...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Under review

Prevent VPSIZE(0) Bufferpool

The idea would be to have a permission or rule in place to prevent an alter bufferpool to VPSIZE(0). As it can cause major problems.
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Command 'db2pd -reorgs index' does not show info about the progress of reorg index with 'cleanup all' or 'reclaim extents'

There is a limitation to show info with db2pd -reorgs index for command like reorg indexes all for table ... allow write access cleanup all reclaim extents. It is possibile to monitor progress of reorg offline and online but not for the above case...
11 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Under review

Removed object types after Db2 13

At IDUG in Valencia Haakon Roberts informed us that some object types and a few other things has to be removed before we can go to the version after Db2 13. These are Simple tablespaces Segmented Tablespaces Classic partitioned tablespaces Basic (...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CDC Agent support HA/cluster by product itself.

In banking production environment, CDC agent are often across multi platform for different database, and CDC HA solution have to depend on different technology tightly with OS and different OS version, such as AIX, Linux. and the HA stack is often...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Improvements to the Transformer Component in CP4D:

- The Variable Stages: only one stage is visible at a time, and it is not possible to view the entry fields with its properties.- The output derivation: if the link is long, it is hard to know what fileds are to be derived, and whihc transfromatio...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Bring MATLAB interface back for CPLEX

Please bring back the MATLAB interface for CPLEX. We rely heavily on this feature since toolboxes we use are Matlab exclusive.
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 34 Future consideration

Multiple Language Support for Workflows and Collaboration Areas

Multiple language support for the workflow/collaboration area is essential to our end users. We have users across the globe, many of whom are non-native English speakers. We are planning to increase the adoption rate of the workflow feature across...
21 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review