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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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Compatibility Power rhel 8 / 9 with IIDR

Hello , We need to know quickly if you plan to test and deploy iidr binary for : Power on rhel 8.x, or Power on rhel 9.x We need to have your answer about the feasability asap plz, Best regards,
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Make DB2 federation option DB2_TWO_PHASE_COMMIT compatible with HOST and PORT options

The new Db2 11.5 HOST and PORT options (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-database) remove the need to catalog federated source Db2 databases for standard connections. This simplifies configuration. However, for two phase comm...
8 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0

New ZPARM for SYSTIMESENSITIVE Bind Option

Please reference CASE TS005056787 ( Temporal Table access path in Plan_Table does not match dynamic explain). This bind option which is set for using a Temporal Timestamp Register was set with a DEFAULT to YES by IBM for all binds that exclude thi...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Have an option to configure the session timeout and user logout redirect urls

issue with how SP interacts with our app portal's SSO
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

new fixcat categories in maintenance stream

We would like to have new fixcat categories for security and performance. Currently this is a manual process that is labor intensive and in some cases time prohibitive. New security policies require that we identify fixes that are security or perf...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add a Feature to Replicate Microseconds Portion of Timestamp

We use IIDR CDC on z/OS for replication using DB2 data on z/OS as the source and a flat file on a non-z/OS platform as the target. We have encountered a situation where the microseconds portion of the timestamp value on a DB2 z/OS table is not ret...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Allow ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE for ARCHIVE TABLES (Type 'R')

We have archive tables to retain old data for up to 8 years using transparent archiving. When we try and Rotate these tables we get SQLCODE -20525: ALTER TABLE DBO.SECURITYLOG_$ARC ROTATE PARTITION FIRST TO LAST ENDING AT ('2020-11-30-23.59.59...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Alter-support for global variables

With DB2 V11 global variables were introduced, but unfortunately no alter-option to change the default. This would be especially beneficial it this enhancement would also include the system-provided global variables. With this enhancement each cus...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Email Notification to users if ingestion is halted or completed

When ingesting large document collections it would be beneficial to have notifications sent out with ingestion status or issues.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

To prevent data corruption or issues with Elastic Search, pause ingestion or stop ingestion before storage volumes / PVCs fill up and cause a crash.

Reduce support tickets, prevent future issues, and allow users to ingest data overnight without worrying about storage filling up.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration