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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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NEVER fall back to IMS DBCTL when SQL is not eligible for IMS Direct

We have a requirement to restrict access to IMS Direct only. Users should not have access to IMS Online. In DVM when an SQL is not eligible for IMS Direct DVM directs the SQL to IMS Online despite IMS Online not being enabled in DVM. There is no o...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Converting ZCEE WOLA to ZCEE JVM

Currently the connection between zCEE and DVM is over WOLA. This setup requires a 1:1 zCEE server for each DVM subsystem that needs to expose web services. We would like to see an alternative interface added that would allow multiple DVMs to be se...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

When using onsmsync, the -t option should ONLY query Storage Manager for objects that fit criteria

It appears based on logs from storage manager that when the -t flag is used in onsmsync that the Storage Manager is queried for all objects residing in the sysutils database, and not just for those objects that are greater than the date time value...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Email notification for password expiration

The current version of Db2 Warehouse on Cloud supports the enforcement of password policies and setting a duration of password validity before expiration, however there is no option to send email notifications to users to warn them that their pass...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Not under consideration

RFE #5 API SUPPORT

API SUPPORT (REST_API ) FOR DB2AI INCLUDING SYSTEM ASSESSMENT,SQL OPTIMIZATION,DCC TO BE ABLE TO CONSUME THIS DATA FROM INHOUSE TOOLS AND ALSO ALTERT API SUPPORT REQUESTED FOR INTEGRATION TO OTHER TOOLS (such as OBM) THAT CAN CAPTURE ALTERS GROUPE...
about 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

RFE #3 REQUEST TO BE ABLE TO EASILY SET TO TURN OFF DB2AI AFFECTING CHOICE OF ACCESS PATH AT PACKAGE/STATEMENT LEVEL FROM DB2ZAI UI

Ability to ignore Db2zAI chosen access path • Stopping ML will trigger this, however, there is no granularity as package or statement level.
about 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RFE #2 EXPLAIN ONLY CAPABILITY REQUESTED FROM DB2ZAI UI

Informed decision for the initial rebinds • EXPLAIN ONLY option in Db2zAI UI to understand the access path before the choosing.
about 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DataStage Snowflake Connector lacking "OAuth" support.

IBM DataStage Snowflake Connector is lacking feature to support OAuth. From Security perspective and risk management department: DTCC as an organization objective all connections to snowflake is - "to leverage OAuth token feature" We need IBM to w...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 6 Not under consideration

CDC shouldn't require a cleanup of staging store and transaction queues to refresh a table already in scope

On a shared scrape instance, we noticed that if we need to refresh a table (or add one to replication scope), with rule based replication the start of the subscription (for refresh) will fail if there's an open transaction on the table. From the m...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Config option to raise an SQL error on inserting a too long string value

Inserting of any string value should not result with a silent automatic truncation of a given value and with an OK transaction result status. Exactly this is the default DBMS behaviour for non-ANSI databases.One solution for this could be the intr...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration