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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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Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Add support for APPL_ID in CREATE TRUSTED CONTEXT for LUW

In Db2 for z/OS the CREATE TRUSTED CONTEXT allows for the inclusion of JOBNAME.There is currently no equivalent in the Db2 LUW version as of 12.1. I would like to suggest that APPL_ID be added in Db2 LUW to give a similar functionality. This w...
24 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…)TS017408...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Mac users unable to open and edit MS Office files directly from Openpages

Some of our OpenPages users who are using MAC systems have raised concerns over being unable to view and edit MS office files directly from OpenPages like how its available on PC. It will be handy for users to have this feature available in Mac as...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Copy all subset members to clipboard

It's not possible to copy more then 120 Elements in Set Editor. Only the currently loaded page is copied, currently 120 members, and is subject to change as we deem fit for performance reasons. We do not copy across pages.
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Adjust order of objects starting with numbers

Is it possible to change the order of objects starting with numbers. Currently objects are being displayed in an ordering that works great if 0 to 9 is used. The moment 10 is used, the object display below 1 and not below 9 (which would be the log...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support for CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO would be very usefull for Spaces with a 'high' number of partitions to avoid timeouts on SYSTSTAB.

When using "CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO", "DEFINE NO" is ignored with SQLCODE 20122 and the VSAM Clusters are created anyway. Doing this for a partitioned index on a partitioned table with lots of partitions (400+) the runtime of CREATE INDEX...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
8 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration