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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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Allow called Programs in z/OS to execute SQL without requiring the main program to be started with a DB2 plan.

When it becomes necessary for a called program in z/OS to execute SQL statements it is only possible when the main program is alredy called with a DB2 connection (DSN and Plan). While the required modification seems minor, it is next to impossible...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Optim zOS: Support for IMS DB (Insert) where segments have exit routines with DB2 statements

Opitm zOS - We have IMS DBs of which some segments have exit routines that have DB2 statements - Purpose of these exit routines is to keep IMS segment data in sync with DB2 tables (when a Insert / Update / Delete happens on a record in the IMS seg...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Add support for native Aziure Databases - Cosmos

Many companies have slowly implemented a hybrid cloud architecture. I am the lead TDM engineer at GM and we have no solution for native azure db's - Cosmo
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Create error message or revert back to SS home page when a user is not configured in Guardian.

When a user has SS access, but is not configured in SP, the SP log in screen displays. The user will attempt to log in here and will not be able to continue- this can be very confusing and cause phone calls to our support team. We need either an e...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Let Db2 REST return alternative and more useful JSON keys

Db2 REST today return JSON keys that are hard to consume if you for example use JSON Binding layer (aka JSON-B). The reason behind that is that the JSON keys returned don't always follow the common naming standards that require you to use lowerCam...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Need the ability to "Import" or "Load" data from CSV file

We have the ability to Export to CSV file, we need the ability to Import from CSV. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to do this.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Allow for adding packages and custom environments for WML.

This will allow the users to create custom environments and add needed packages in the customization section. This way all the needed packages are installed at the time the environment is spun up. This ability is currently available when creating ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Adding packages and custom environments to RStudio.

This will allow the users to create custom environments and add needed packages in the customization section. This way all the needed packages are installed at the time the environment is spun up. This ability is currently available when creating ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Consolidated Database Availability (weekly/monthly) Report.

Data Management Console currently doesn't have a capability to generate a weekly/monthly "Database Availability" report of all the Databases that are being monitored. This enhancement needs to be added so that DMC can generate a report which shoul...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration