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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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Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition for Lineage scanner
17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

When setting LSF_STRICT_CHECKING=N, an option is needed to suppress the warning messages during reconfig, ckconfig, or mbdrestart.

Customers hope to waive those relevant warning messages to avoid the management process.
17 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Management by RBA Capture Utility of offline DB2 in a Sysplex

At this time if we configure all DB2 we have in a Sysplex in all RBA capture utility we have errors messages on systems where DB2s are down. In a Sysplex and Datasharing groups DB2s members and Single instance could move from LPAR to LPAR dependin...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Pacemaker on Db2 Linux HADR - ability to add more than 1 network interface as a resource

We use 2 network interfaces in our Db2 server setup: one public and a private used by the HADR-traffic. Other servers even have more interfaces. I'd like to be able to add them as a pacemaker resource.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Drop indexes with uniquerule P and C

When a tablespace is converted from PBG to PBR or even PBR-PBG-PBR all indexes become non-partitioned. There will not be a solution to convert non-partitioned indexes to partitioned. Instead IBM point to DB24ZOS-I-553 to create new unique indexes ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

The ability to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons

This is a requirement to have the ability to to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons. For example - Suppose I want to place a run as background button on the HTML output page so that users dont have to go to report path and do ru...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Removed object types after Db2 13

At IDUG in Valencia Haakon Roberts informed us that some object types and a few other things has to be removed before we can go to the version after Db2 13. These are Simple tablespaces Segmented Tablespaces Classic partitioned tablespaces Basic (...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Planning Analytics:-Cognos Analytics as a Data Source

We have highlighted that In Previous version of PA and PAW we had option to select Cognos Analytics as data source which gives us option to integrate with SAP and cloud databases such as Snowflake. Currently this feature is only enabled in Perform...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Backup/restore using Google Cloud Storage

The possibility to define a Google Cloud Storage as a target for the backup (in similar way like I can use today a S3 compatible storage). In this moment is not certified, but a lot of customer use GCS as standard storage for his backup.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release