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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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Application status change time is not available in any mon_get_* table functions

In snap admin views, users could see STATUS_CHANGE_TIME column for the application which was helpful in determining when exactly the application changed it status when investigating performance issues. This would help users to estimate or know how...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Make Export add a column header row to output

Export is often used to download data from a Db2 Server to a user's workstation where they then look at it in excel.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Better functionality in rules with hierarchies

If there is a dimension that has multiple PAW hierarchies on it, and has a C level rule that reference an element that is in both the main dimension and hierarchy, it would be good to not have to specify every hierarchy we want the rule applied to.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parrallel offload (Archive logs)

DB2 offload logs in sequential mode. We offload logs directly to virtual tapes and sometimes when have problem with tapes DB2 holds many full active logs. It'll be great if DB2 can offload for example ten full active logs in parallel.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow for LISTDEF processing when using CHECK Utility

Details: 1) Manual does not mention use of "LIST" on the "CHECK DATA" page. Example proposed syntax: LISTDEF CHKLIST INCLUDE TABLESPACE DB123.* CHECK LIST CHKLIST SCOPE ALL EXCEPTIONS 0 SORTDEVT WORK
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DPF Support for HADR(RIMS)

DPF Support for HADRDPF Support for HADR
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Need Refresh icon on My schedules and subscriptions

In Cognos v10 the My schedules and Subscriptions has a refresh icon that is utilized by our company and business partners however, in Cognos v11 this feature has gone away
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 CLI driver should include all public Root CA certificates

Our applications connect to DB2 using the CLI driver. For years this was not an issue until the SSL certificate expired on the DB2 server and had to be replaced. The replacement certificate was not signed with the same Root CA packaged with the dr...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

DB2 accounting SMF101 with reporting class

The absence of report class in DB2 SMF record 101 is cumbersome for capacity management. Report Class is used for workload reporting and accounting. To match SMF 72 (values by report class) with SMF 101 (values by thread, i.e. for userid and other...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics: Possibility to secure views and sets

You can secure many Planning Analytics objects (e.g. cubes, elements, cells, applications..), but you cannot secure views or sets. In huge environments there are often many public views/sets and it would be great to have a user group-based securit...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration