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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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Allow more granular control over what SQL will result in Statistics Profiles updates

Unnecessary statistics can increase RUNSTATS collection elapsed and CPU time, sometimes exponentially, and impact BIND/PREPARE performance because the optimizer must read in all available statistics to determine what is and is not useful for each ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Full package support for Restful services

A restful service contains one and only one SQL statement and is, simply put, a mini-static package. It was delivered with a couple of problems. Firstly, the only way to tell if this static package is a restful service is to look at the HOSTLANG c...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Integrity Validation of SW and Updates

In order to complain with the Security Framework Controls of a product which uses Db2 connect SW the following requirement should be fullfilled: "Before applying the software and security updates, their legitimate source should be validated and in...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Planned for future release

Allow to create a snapshot with an unlimited number of assets

As said in the short name, I think the limit at 100 assets maximum per Snapshot is not realistic for a production environment with a bunch of users...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Provide an option, either to Add or to Replace field value at the time of Bulk Update

This is an enhancement needed for the Bulk Update feature in the Grid View. Currently when we want to add a value to the existing field, it is getting overwritten ( replaced ) . we need a feature in the "bulk update" where by we can either add or ...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Restful API call needs to support array data types

Currently the RESTFUL API Db2 service does not support array data types as part of the call statement.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable DVM Access through Visual Studio Code

The Scenario: Currently we use Visual Studio Code for all development activities. Visual Studio Code acts as a single workstation. It is rich in libraries and plugins for distributed environments and Cloud environments. By using the ZOWE plug in, ...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 AI should discover and prevent deadlocks, for example in situations where programs that previously have been in deadlock situations are expected to deadlock again.

In deadlock situations, one of the involved programs will be rolled back, resources have been unnecessarily used and DBA’s must spend time investigating deadlocks. In transaction intensive systems deadlocks also may cause response time delays or o...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Increase Database Name Length Restriction

Real Life Scenario: With Devops and the introduction of "Infrastructure as Code", a database build can be done via Helm Charts, K8's, Cloudformation templates, etc. Automation can dramatically increase how often a database is built and how many cl...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support lineage for Data Modules

I was surprised to find that data lineage is not supported for data modules when this is one of the key differentiators in the market for Cognos. Please consider to add lineage support for data modules asap.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration