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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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Accurate TIMESTAMP values for the detailed DataStage log reports.

DataStage's detailed log reports do not have accurate TIMESTAMP values that represent when any of the underlying events actually started and/or completed. We have dozens of jobs that run for a half an hour or longer and without having accurate TIM...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DB2 HPU should honour AUTH_COMPATIBILITY

Db2 High Performance Unload does not honour Db2 v12 zparm AUTH_COMPATIBILITY when it is set to Null. There has long been the need to lock down the Unload utility to minimise data leakage risks. This capability was delivered in Db2 v12, but it has ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provision summary report on data archival processing

An enhancement or a new menu is needed in Optim to generate and show a report on archival and deletion processing summary so far OR based on some filters. Below is the business case. Requirement : Customers have been using the Optim based archi...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Oracle 12c Release 1 64 bit Client / Windows 2012R

InfoSphere Information Server on Windows2012R2 should work with Oracle 64bit client for client data sources. The 32bit Oracle client isn't supported by Oracle, somehow. Customer wants to use Windows 2012R2 because they use an Oracle RAC SUN solari...
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Add 'WITHOUT CURSOR HOLD' bind option

We have occasionally seen timeouts against DB2 catalog tables that trace back to long running threads from QMF for Workstation that are running WITH CURSOR HOLD
about 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Templates should support defered tape Mounts

We use a VTL for our Tape Environment. For a VTL it is recommended by IBM to use UNIT=(TAPE,,DEFER) in all Jobs. DB2 uses templates to generate JCL. In this templates it is not possible to code a DEFER parameter. Is there a way to solve this dilemma?
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Extend backup device support to the S3 API

Extend backup device support to the S3 API so storage profiles can be used to send files to object storage devices.
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Deliver a warning when the schedule end date is approaching

Is anyway we get warning or any message for ending date. We want to know report schedule end date approaching. So that we can extended our schedule or any automatically extend the end date.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make Select Into Global Variables dynamically preparable

DB2 for z/OS v12 currently only allows SELECT ... INTO in app. programs and stored procedures. It would be extremely useful if users could perform SELECT INTO global variables in dynamic queries.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Use SP DSNUTILU with IDAA LOADER SERVER.

We tried to use WLM stored Procedure DSNUTILU to run HLV Loader instead of DSNUTILB with JCL without successful. We opened PMR 16347,250,631 to treat this issue and we was informed that is not is possible, then at this moment we can not use IDAA L...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration