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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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Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

REBIND allocated plan

Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Externalize the -904 Resource Unavailable error pertaining to IDAA workload

Currently the resource unavailable messages for IDAA workload isn’t getting trapped in DB2 or logs. Except for the application logs and or additional trace processing. We would like for the IDAA related messages to be captured either in DB2 or SYS...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Is a defect
134 VOTE

export data from tables out of a backup image

Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration
141 VOTE

Same selected item data in value prompt is sent to the client browser over and over while using drill-through

Same selected item data in Value prompt is sent to client browser over and over while using drill through. When lots of items are selected in Value prompt, this issue causes huge amount of data receiving. Those same selected item data shouldn't be...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBM i does not support XML data type

1. Problem description – IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBMi does not support XML data type. When you want to replicate the data of a table using CDC, but the table contains a column of XML data type, CDC indicates that replication is n...
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Drop indexes with uniquerule P and C

When a tablespace is converted from PBG to PBR or even PBR-PBG-PBR all indexes become non-partitioned. There will not be a solution to convert non-partitioned indexes to partitioned. Instead IBM point to DB24ZOS-I-553 to create new unique indexes ...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

The ability to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons

This is a requirement to have the ability to to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons. For example - Suppose I want to place a run as background button on the HTML output page so that users dont have to go to report path and do ru...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Indicate whether the fallback SPE for Db2 13 migration is installed

As a user planning to migrate to Db2 13 I already activated V12R1M510 on my Db2 12 subsystem. However, I also want to make sure that I have the fallback SPE PH37108 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH37108 installed. Could this information b...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Planned for future release

Configure PaceMaker for Db2/HADR automation using "rsync" as an option for "db2crm" script.

Ability to configure the entire PaceMaker cluster for Db2 HADR without using ftp or scp. For security reasons, some client environments do not allow the use of "ftp" or "scp". The cluster creation option accepts "rsync" as an option instead of "sc...
11 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration