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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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Adding new values to CHECK Constraints should not put Table in CHECK PENDING

There are many instances today when existing CHECK Constraints have to be modified to add additional values. Currently, making any modifications to CHECK Constraints to add or remove values requires that the Constraint be dropped and re-created. T...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow customers to specify a name for SYSINSTL ID instead of forcing "SYSINSTL"

Currently, IBM allows customers to install Db2 for z/OS under Install SYSOPR authority. This requires that the customer specify "SYSINSTL" as the installer ID in several key steps of the DB2 Install CLIST. "SYSINSTL" is then used for definition of...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

getting data when creating a new dynamic report

Having new boolean variable, similar to TM1REBUILDOPTION, but for getting data when creating a new dynamic report, even if Excel calculation option is set to "Manual". For example : TM1FIRSTGETDATA=1 would get data when creating a new dynamic repo...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

How to estimate incremental backup size?

I would like to know that How to estimate incremental backup size? And If i calculate the data per day from transaction log or archive log?If not, Could you please suggest another way for calculate the data?
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

refresh fedration cache withouht the need to bounce instance once port number is changed from x to y

We have fedration defined from db2 to db2 v1 11 servers. once we update the port number of the fedration server we started getting errors like below SQL30080N A communication error "111" occurred sending or receiving data from the remote database....
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Encrypted column support being deprecated, what else is available?

With DB2 LUW 11.1 the encrypt and decrypt, decrypt_char, decrypt_bin, etc functions are being deprecated. We already have all of the data encrypted on the disk with the disk subsystem so using an encrypted database does me no good. I need to be ab...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Unable to edit Combined Filter from show filter option available in the Cognos 11.0.10 viewer

Not able to edit the Combined fitlers when we run the report from the Cognos 11.0.10 Viewer even though we specify the option 'Can be Changed in the Viewer' for the combined filter.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 for i - add mapping possibility for xml data

No workaround - CDC for z allowed to do it .... ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=console-supported-data-types )
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Informix HQ - API calls for Groups/Servers administration

Hello Team, I am aware that we can create/add/delete Servers/Groups via InformixHQ UI as admin. Are there API calls that I can use with curl for add/delete/modify Servers/Groups ? This will help in automating end-to-end configuration of Informix H...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

IBM DataStage Flow Designer REST API - Multiple compile jobs feature

We are looking for a REST API call that perform multiple compile jobs feature (the same feature available into Datastage Designer Client).In the doc (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.7.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.ds.fd.doc/topics/...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration