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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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Global Correlation ID for VSAM/IAM and DB2 updates made by CICS transaction

It would be good if CDC provides global correlation ID to correlate DB2 and VSAM/IAM updates made by CICS transaction in a unit of work. For example: If CICS txn (TXN1) is updating the FILE1 (VSAM/IAM) and TABLE1 in a same unit of work, we are loo...
27 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

write the initial prompt as a comment in the playbook when using the playbook generation feature

When someone uses the WCA4A's playbook generation feature (generating a full playbook thanks to a single prompt), it would be useful (some customers hasve asked for this) if the initial prompt used to build the playbook could be written as a comme...

Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

UTILITY wait for other Utility

Consider a Utility A executing on an Db2-object (example LOAD) and another incompatible Utility B trying to acquire drain on the same Db2-object (example QUIESCE). Db2 immediately rejects this Utility B, without waiting. We suggest a new Utility o...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration
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Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

SSO - Federation for developer users

Currently with SaaS deployment only admins requires IBM ID, developers need then to be added 'locally' by administrator.We have a RFP for WCA (general) SaaS, target is 5K developers. 5K developers is using managing manually, and client is asking f...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Under review

DB2 Upgrades in rolling fashion

Problem Statement: At present we are following IBM process to upgrade db2 hadr servers: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization Current IBM process involves an...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Copy/Paste Ignore Rule Calculated Cells

The ability to copy paste multiple cells of data across a section of cells that contains some rule derived cells. This would reduce the time required to enter data by reducing the amount of times we have to copy paste to avoid the rule derived cells.
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

DB2 12.1 support for rhel8

As the vendor for both database and RHEL OS, I would really expect the customary support for RHEL8 and RHEL9 for db2 LUW 12.1. This is a huge inconvenience for those of us not on 11.5.9. If we need to upgrade we need to go across all of our server...
28 days ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

Request: To support of RHEL 9.2 or later (x86-64)

Some customers are considering running CDC on RHEL 9. They would like CDC to support RHEL 9.2 or later (x86-64).
29 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release