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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Add a STOP DB2 mode that cancels connected threads, but not internal processes.

We have struggled with getting a "clean" shutdown of Db2 for years. If we try to use STOP DB2 MODE(QUIESCE), Db2 will not stop. Persistent threads from STCs such as CICS regions, WAS Z servants, and ARS CMOD servers do not "end", so they never all...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable use of encrypted passwords to test connections to databases in the DVM JGate Server interface

A successful “Test Connection” must be completed to “Add new relational data source name and connection parameters” using the DVM JDBC Gateway Server interface. To perform the “Test Connection” a valid userid and password with access to the data s...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Add data format properties from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule

Add data format properties from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages. Currently the max it can go is 500 and if there are more models to be downloaded, it cannot be done with single export. We request you to please ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Automate Online Reorgs

Currently, automatic reorgs can only be performed offline. The additional functionality we are looking for would be the ability to perform automatic in-place/online reorgs. The benefit of that is users still have full table access during the proce...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Require datastage job interim run status in cpdctl dsjob jobinfo command output as same is available in classic datastage dsjob jobinfo option

Require datastage job interim run status in cpdctl dsjob jobinfo command output as same is available in classic datastage dsjob jobinfo option This option is used to get the datastage job interim status which is useful when we are trying to captur...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Track Date last used/accessed for TABLE objects

As more people use EXPLAIN PLAN and BIND_EXPLAIN(ONLY), and EXPLAIN PACKAGE to collect explain data for managing rebinds and package changes, PLAN Tables proliferate. Some customers find the proliferation of explain tables to be problematic. We ne...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enable SPLUNK on CP4D running ICPDS v1

Provide the SPLUNK client support on both the control nodes and NPS container to satisfy ever increasing audit requirements. When given the option to stay on V1 or go to V2, we were told all funcionality for V2 would be worked into V1. V2 support ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Please provide update for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1 and 7.3.2 to update Spring Boot version to 3.3

Our compliance team is requiring all Spring Boot version be updated to 3.3 since all previous versions are already end of life or approaching end of life in next 30-45 days.
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 5 Submitted

Databricks connector

Adding a Databricks connector to DataStage could bring several benefits. Here are a few reasons why it could be a good idea: Enhanced Data Integration: A Databricks connector would allow seamless integration between DataStage and Databricks, enabl...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists