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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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Allow a Db2 z/OS Server to request clients set other JDBC Data Server Driver parameters, such as minTransportObjects or maxTransportObjects

In FL502 of Db2 13, IBM offers MODIFY DDF with the "RQSTWLB" option which allows the Db2 server to tell clients to enable Sysplex Workload Balancing (enableSysplexWLB=true) as long as the client doesn't explicitly set WLB to "false". It would be b...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Capability of disabling file download/upload for storage volumes

Update 03/28/2024 Promoted to ICPD-1520 scheduled for v5.1 Disabling uploads to storage Volumes completely across all users is possible quickly. This should be done in 5.0.x releases by simply adding a configuration in the backend. However, I woul...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

Db2: Recovery of Mainframe Db2 databases without applying changes.

When the DB2 is performing a recover it uses log and copy files, it may be some sitations where the log contains changes that we dont want to restore. For exemple we may have inserts made by an authorized program and also updates performed by an u...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rolling Log daily for GNM Distributed Search

To allow rolling log daily
over 1 year ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Batch interface to omegamon

There should be an interface that allows the user to take specific actions via a z/OS job and capture the screen results in a z/OS dataset. This will allow a user to create a standard job to take any action they routinely execute and capture the r...
almost 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Better filter factors - use RI for this

The Db2/LUW optimizer has some algorithms that affect the optimization of queries on that platform based on the fact that RI is involved. But, Db2 for Z can calculate very incorrect filter factors that can be much more correct if Db2 enforced RI w...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Tenant ID Parameter to Extension JSON

Add a Parameter for Tenant ID to Extensions JSON Files. For Example... For the entire extension:{ "name":"Sample_Context_Menu_Item", "comment": "This extension will add a new menu item to the context menu for all report objects.", "comment": "The ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add a date between filter on scheduled jobs, events and reports to the NOT admin variant

When you want to check the scheduled jobs, events and reports and you are not an admin, you should be able to use a between date filter. Now you can select only 1 date instead of more
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show report location/path in the job

It is currently impossible to see the location of the report. So it is difficult to see if you’ve the right report in the job. If you’re not sure, the only way to make it sure is to remove the report in the job and add it again. You need to config...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration