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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Record usage of application plan

In our production environment we have about 15000 application plans. Most of them are probably still used but a lot of them have not been used for several years. We want to get rid of the old ones not to have to rebind them at every new release of...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Need to support namespace based pull secrets for cp.icr.io

When deploying cloud paks into a multi-tenant cluster, there are security issues with having to update the global pull secret. This would allow any tenant in the cluster to pull images from the registry regardless of if they had a valid license an...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

Improve SQL0293N when creating database on 4K sector size disk

On CREATE DATABASE db2 reports a very generic error message SQL0293N when there is a write access to a 4K sector size disk. Instead should do a check when creating containers e.g. read 512 bytes, if this does not work, read 4K block. If 4K block c...
4 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Have Templates for column selection+order in queries

Typically you have dozens or hundres of queries, many using an identical configuraton of columns. You need to specifiy those columns in every query. When changing the order or adding/removing columnsit is a pain to update them. When creating you q...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 1 Future consideration

add tables to active CDC subscription

problem statement : for every table addition, subscription needs to be brought down, impacting the CDC replication service. workaround : none at the moment Proposed Solution : rather , an ask from IBM - please allow table addition to subscription,...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Db2 PureScale Spectrum Scale Package (GPFS) should include performance sensor and collector package

Dear IBM, in the Spectrum Scale distribution bundled with DB2 pureScale, the binary of mmperfmon is included but the packages for the required sensors and collectors are missing. mmperfmon is needed to identify possible performance bottlenecks wit...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Future consideration

11.2 alter home page to Team Content Globally

There is a desire by customers to alter the home page for all users to be the Team Content page in 11.2. However, they can only alter to a report or dashboard. The user individually can alter, so the capability is there, it just needs to be exposed.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Show Process Errors to Non-Admin Users

Logged in as a non-admin user, I run a process which produces minor errors such as: element not found in dimension ItemReject('Message') Missing parameter ODBC connection error but the system doesn't show the errors in the popup window. Only as ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Control of Locksize and Maxpartitions for implicitly defined tablespaces.

We must be able to control parameters like locksize and maxpartitions on implicitly defined tablespaces.In DB2 V12R1M504 multi table tablespaces are deprecated, so we need to use implicitly defined tablespaces for QMF useres. Today we use segmente...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Implement nonconvex quadratic constraints in CPLEX

CPLEX already supports nonconvex quadratic objectives, but not yet constraints, even though they bring a lot of flexibility in modelling.
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 2 Future consideration