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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Use of Adobe Flash in OAT is a security problem, please migrate to HTML5

OAT makes heavy use of Adobe Flash. Flash is an increasing security problem and not supported on all client platforms. HTML 5 is an alternative and should be used instead.
over 8 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement ALTER of STOGROUP to be NO-DISRUPTIVE change.

As we all know to perform an ALTER DB.TS/IX USING STOGROUP XXXXX a STOP/ALTER/START process is required which is a DISRUPTIVE change. So, looking for an enhancement on that ALTER process maybe it could be "improved" by putting the involved Db2 obj...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ONLINE REORG INDEX without logging for HADR

Our Application:24x7. HADR synchronous. LOGINDEXBUILD=ON because of HADR. We have large tables with lots of indexes required for performance reasons. Current problem:We are unable to run online REORG indexes for large tables as this overwhelms our...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the -904 REASON 00E30305 with the root cause of the failing AUTOBIND

The APAR PH13350 enhancement writes a notification DSNT408I SQLCODE = -904, ERROR: UNSUCCESSFUL EXECUTION CAUSED BY AN UNAVAILABLE RESOURCE. REASON 00E30305 , TYPE OF RESOURCE This is a useful notification but it can be quite difficult to find the...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to view details on scheduled jobs as NOT administrator

When you have scheduled a job, reports and events you have to be able to view details of the different reports within 1 specific job. Now the view shows all reports and you are not able to see to which event/job the report is related. That should ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Nested Folder Structures

Our Team of Content Authors, typically organise their work / responsibilities in folders. Having a nested / hierarchical folder, would all creators to also group their own work into logical blocs.
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

job resource usage correction

My developers always submit distributed jobs to the cluster, when their jobs ends with OOM error in one of the nodes, bjobs or bacct commands find that the job's memory usage is incorrect. For example , in server's '/var/log/message' we can see th...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

Control loadbalancing type of db2u-c service in Kubernetes

DB2 only offers nodePort for external exposure. However it would be natural to be able to control the loadbalcing type (i.e. ClusterIP by default, but allow for LoadBalancer). Additionally it would be favourable to place annotations on the service...
5 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

HTML Item for Dashboard

We are an Australian based software company (Pronto Software) which bundles with Cognos Analytics. We are rolling out new Dashboards based on Cognos Analytics and retiring older versions built using Cognos 10. We have a pain point however - we are...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted