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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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Audit policy with userid after a DB2 recycle.

Audit trace starting as per audit policy after a DB2 recycle does not contain USERIDs as per original trace. This is causing change captured SMF records due to a DB2 restart. Is it possible to update the audit policy system to capture trace qualif...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change VEMKD Behavior when unable to access vemkd/container/event file

After receiving RFE 145547 (patch build 563255), there was an occurrence where VEMKD continually restarted due to not being able to access the $EGO_CONFDIR/../../kernel/work/vemkd/container/event file. I'm requesting a similar patch to RFE 145547 ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Not under consideration

Azure SQLMI Target - Support for "redirect" connection type

IBM CDC replication for Azure SQLMI target currently does not support "redirect" connection type. According to Microsoft documentation, redirect connection type is recommended for Azure SQLMI database connection in order to maintain low latency an...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

Import Catalog metadata from a CSV file from the Desktop

When I try to upload a CSV file from the desktop that just contains column names and no data, the catalog cannot display the column names because it seems to think the file empty. The workaround is to add a few rows of "data" to the file to make i...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Optim z/OS Install CLIST maintain proper buffer pools

I would like to suggest that the installation panels for Optim be changed to allow for separate bufferpools to be entered and retained for tablespaces with 4K and 8K page sizes. Currently you enter a buffer pool for tablespaces and another for ind...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Treat "ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ROWID ... RESTART WITH ..." not as a schema change and do not require load of IDAA

"ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ROWID ... RESTART WITH ..." is treated as a Schema Change and requires that the table be reloaded. This Alter is not a Schema Change, please don't require a reload after it is executed.
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bulk upload for training data

We have a JSON file containing all the needed natural language queries and examples for training WDS collection. It would be helpful if there is a way to upload these bulk of queries at the same time to WDS.
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow opening Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages when the Protocol is https

Opening Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages is very useful for the user to avoid downloading files for updating. In some installations, for security reasons, it is mandatory to implement the https protocol, which is currently not compa...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Functionality already exists

Pyarrow v2.0 conda package for ppc64le

We are in immediate need of latest pyarrow version for ppc64le and we are looking for v2.0.Also we need a conda package ( NOT PIP) and will appreciate if this could be made available to us at the earliest. Having said this would like to follow up ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 1 Planned for future release

Number theory article applied in AI technology

This is the research of my own related to number theory. In general: A whole number, odd or even, can be analyzed as the sum of a prime number and two Fibonacci numbers. Here we have some examples 52362 = 52127 (prime) + 2 (Fibonacci 1) + 233 (Fib...
over 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration