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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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Change Isolation Level to UR on Read-Only DBs / Tablespaces / Partitions

Databases, Tablespaces, and Partitions can be started in Db2 in read-only (RO) mode. This allows user transactions to access data in these objects only for read (SELECT). Therefore no modification to this data can be made. However, when accessing ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Workflow documentation from the platform

For documentation and review purposes, it would be useful automatically generate end-user readable documentation for the workflows in Excel/Word. Ideally this would also enable a delta to the last published version to be able to see what was changed.
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Under review

Open a Websheet as a new tab

Open a Websheet as a new tab from a link (using action button) within websheet in PAW Ex: A websheet published in PAW has a link to another websheet. In TM1 web when this link is clicked a new tab opens with the websheet. However, in PAW the new w...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Provide HASH scalar function support in query acceleration

Our data science team heavily user HASH scalar function in day to day business in complex SQL processing. Unfortunately, it is not supported in current IDAA version 7.5.12. and forces to route to native DB2z. It takes long time and requires heavy ...
8 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

JDBC suport of collection data types in scroll cursors

Currently the usage of collection data type columns in scroll cursors are disabled by default throwing an Exception with this stack trace. Stack trace returned is: at com.informix.util.IfxErrMsg.buildExceptionWithMessage(IfxErrMsg.java:416) at com...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Create INDEX and SKPT lock. DDL and continuous availability.

Working in a banking 24x7 environment without any maintenance window our concurrency issues with DDL changes are increasing more and more everyday as our workload increases. There are some concurrency problems that we think it should value the eff...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Parallel log file archival and retrieval

Log archival / retrieval is performed by a single thread. This can lead to log archival stuck e.g. if log file need to be retrieved to be added to online backup include logs. This is also problematic if multiple log files need to be retrieved duri...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

FastMap to validate dependent picklists and hidden enum values

We'd like the ability to make FastMap imports do the following two extra validations:1) check that dependent picklist values match their controlling field values2) check that enum values are not currently listed as hidden values
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add REMARKS column to SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and COMMENT support for database object

We would like to ask you, to add the REMARKS column in SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and support for COMMENT statement for databases. There is no possibility currently to store some form of a description for databases in DB2 catalog. In big sites where thous...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Unable to identify the broken links for cognos report versions

We have recently upgraded our cognos version from 11.1.7 IF10 to 11.2.4FP2 on our lower environments and we noticed that it is not possible to identify broken links just by looking at it in upgraded environment. We noticed that it was better in 11...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted