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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 DB2 to export data from a base table in normal state even if index tablespace is in Rollforward pending state

DB2 should allow exporting data from a base table (tablespace) in normal state even if the index tablespace is in Rollforward pending state (or other abnormal state). This would allow us to rebuilt the table without losing data.DB2 should also alt...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add Business Process Visualizations feature to TFUI

Business Process Visualizations feature where users can create process diagrams in OP (using ProcessDiagram, DataInput, DataOutput object types) was only available in the Standard UI and retired in 8.3. Many clients use an external tool to create ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

JSON Indexing on non-inline LOBs

Currently IBM allows the creation of indexes for JSON docs stored in an inline LOB but not a non-inline LOB. We want to make full use of JSON docs in DB2 for zOS. We wanted to avoid having to move more apps to MongoDB.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Pacemaker upgrade break cluster when Red Hat Satellite is not accessible

Hello, My idea is to add some check if Red Hat satellite is visible into db2installPCMK because if it's not, update will break cluster and DB2 will be unusable until visibility is fixed and db2installPCMK is executed again. As workaround you shoul...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

ZSAV extension support for Data Files

In SPSS Modeler included in Cloud Pak for Data, as supported Data File extension, there are plenty types, but the zsav format (the one used most often by the customer) which does not appear to be present in the list. It would be a good idea to inc...
about 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Avoid impact from query sort usage on more important online transactions workload

Nowadays usage of Sortworks by a single thread is limited by MAXTEMPS or the size of the overall available sortworks if MAXTEMPS is zero. Most time MAXTEMPS works well to protect our regular business against single queries with a lot of sort amoun...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add value to comments from PAfE reports

When adding comments to a cell from a PAW view the current cell value is always saved with the comment, for some reason this is not the case when adding a comment to the same cell from a PAfE report published to PAW, in this case the Value is alwa...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Hilight current folder of CADS Repository explorer

When using the explorer window of modeler client browsing the IBM SPSS CsDS Repository contents,while selected file is easy to recognize because background color of the row is turned orange,current folder is not hilighted or colord and the path of...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Reschedule multiple batch jobs (multi-select) at the same time

Our clients use Maintain -> Batch Queue -> Manage in order to reschedule batch jobs in Cognos Controller. They reschedule them to be executed immediately. The jobs are put in a queue which is fine and executed as configured (1 by 1). Unfo...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

CaDS Deployment Manager - extended Job History Filters

In C&Ds Deployment Manager Job History you can filter jobs by different criteria. One of them is Last Run Status. From drop down list you can chose only three: Success, Failure and Canceled. It would be appreciated that the filter would also i...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration