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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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TRANS NID for spanish NIF/NIE should accept 9 characters

Spanish NIF/NIE has 9 characters so the TRANS NID function always skip the source row because it detects invalid lenght. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=function-masking-spanish-fiscal-identification-numbers
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 7 Not under consideration

Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 1 Future consideration

Allow the application of users local time on timestamps in data export

Safer payments generated timestamps are stored in UTC and are converted using the users preferences (my account) when displayed in the UI (queries or case management). When export dating the raw data is used and timestamps are exported in UTC. Thi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Allow user to add extra properties in vizualisation (Dashboard)

Dear,Could we envisage to add extra properties in vizualisation (Dashboard) in order to pass extra values to drill-through.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Base JMeter test plan for load and stability testing Cognos Analytics

It would very useful to have an Apache JMeter test plan to probe an IBM Cognos Analytics installs for stability under load. Just a base test plan that admins and consultants can use as a reasonable starting point in order to place Cognos Analytics...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RECOVER utility option to include inflights

There should be an option in RECOVER utility which allows to include during recovery all the inflight threads which started before the point of time to which we are recovering the object. Currently all inflights are being rolled back
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make multiple DDL changes transactional

Why is it useful? When complex changes are made in DDL and one of the changes fails, it can get pretty hard to revert the issue. Who would benefit from it? Implementing this idea would tremendously help database administrators. How should it work?...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Functionality already exists

Stop requiring Db2 to be run in a --privileged container

Using the ibmcom_db2 docker image, even when adding a license to it, or installing licensed Db2 to a container based on a supported O/S requires running in a docker container with the --privileged switch. This is not a good practice and cannot be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

extended ESQL/C login structure for solving password length problem

Status: In an application using ESQL/C authentication with instance users, a user can change his password by using sql with a passwort length greater than the 18 character limit imposed by the struct InetLogin (see case TS003855467). After the cha...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Extend the Value of Omegamon Near-Term History

The Performance Database tables holds history information about Db2 activity, and the sequential output dataset created by NTH can be used as the input to create LOAD files with data to populate most of the tables, but not all. The problem is tha...
about 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration