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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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Add new column in Db2 catalog table

when IBM is planning to add a "LASTUSED" column on the DB2 for z/OS sysibm.systables table.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow statement level hints on SQL in stored procedure packages

It is a huge pain to hint specific statements contained within stored procedure packages. Currently you will get this message if trying to bind query for a statement level hint on a procedure package: DSNT281I -DBP1 BIND QUERY FOR QUERYNO = 59988 ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Cognos analytics prompts - add a default value based on an expression

It would be very helpful if Cognos analytics prompts supports adding a default value based on a query in addition to being able to choose static choices.. This would be very helpful for creating reports without needing to creating custom code. Cur...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Add lock wait time to oncheck

If oncheck encounters a row/table is locked it immeditely returns error: ERROR: Could not obtain lock for <database>:<user>.<table> It would be useful to have an option for user to select lock wait time for example: oncheck -cDI ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Release one restriction of pureScale

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.perf.doc/doc/c0009677.html In a pureScale environment, space that is freed up by a delete transaction on one member may not be reused by an insert transaction on a ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

Teradata Assets - Column analysed incorrectly as Primary Key

In Teradata the assets are defined as PRIMARY INDEX and UNIQUE PRIMARY INDEX. If a column is a PRIMARY INDEX, it is not a primary key until UNIQUE is mentioned.
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Support remote log reading from ASMFD devices

When Oracle Database redo and archived log files are stored in ASM under Linux, and ASMFD is used as part of the ASM setup, IBM CDC agent is not able to read these logs remotely. Oracle seems to recommend the use of ASMFD under Linux, as it "simpl...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

PAW user profile settings

Based on our experiences we would like to propose improving the PAW user profile settings by two possibilities: Change the number of characters to indent TAB-key By default TAB-key currently indents only two characters in editors. Developers would...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Zowe Startup and Shutdown message

During the Startup and Shutdown of ZOWE , the startup / shutdown messages are in STDOUT but the same is not externalized to SYSLOG and there isnt a unique message id to confirm weather the Startup / shutdown of ZOWE is successful
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Delivered

Help us deprecate Synonyms

It's been well documented that synonyms are deprecated in DB2 z/OS, and we are trying to eliminate them in our systems before our Db2 V12 upgrade. Unfortunately other than telling people to cut it out, we don't have any way of stopping people from...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered