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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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Change the backup name from ONLINE to semi-ONLINE as the onlines backups are not supported. Please see TS014902228

Online backup has many issues for db2 (TS014902228)
11 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Enhance API data export to provide day-by-day reports

We are using API Connect for an application that requires regular reporting to financial authorities. The report includes day-by-date statistics on number or calls and average latency. Report is generated from data available in API Connect Analyti...
11 months ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Would love to see a containerized version of the CDC Kafka agent made available

A container image of the CDC Kafka agent that I could deploy would be so handy.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

View and subset counter

We would like to add the functionality to count how many times a view and a subset is used/opened. Users are creating a lot of different subsets and views and it can sometimes be difficult to navigate in the menus due to this. At the moment it's h...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 zOS: Provide support for period-clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for update operation within MERGE statement

Idea is to extend functionality of MERGE statement in Db2 z/OS by providing support for the period clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for an update operation (and delete operation) within the MERGE statement. The statement would look like this: ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request for supporting MQ automatic client reconnect

As we know, IBM MQ supports multi-instance configuration and automatic client reconnect since version 7.0.1. Recently we found the latest Q-Relication (11.4.0) even not support such a basic function( automatic client reconnect with multi-instance ...

Optim to make use of REST API / S3 protocol instead CIFS protocol

The problem statement is below: OPTIM is unable the read any archive file from HCP device (cifs protocol used) and this has become more frequent for the past two weeks. The archive file written locally can be retrieved without any IO Error. The Op...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration

Remove ISPF restriction preventing the actual count of objects returned from using the SARG command

Please remove the ISPF restriction that is preventing the following in Db2 Admin Tool (rejected in DB2ZADMTL-I-85) - I have used panel ADB21K and the count as an example below, but the misleading count occurs on other panels when you have used the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Aprove or Reject comparison of Reports in LifeCycle Manager

After running a comparison of a report in LifeCycle Manger (LCM) we have seen a number of reports fail on some cosmetic differences.In the previous versions (version 10.2 or older) we were able to use a feature in LCM whereby we could Approve or R...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 database in a read only mode

Ability to place a DB2 database in a read only mode for a period of time. Out side of the "db2 set write suspend for database" or a quiesce.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration