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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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DB2 LUW on Linux should support WEKA Filesystem

DB2 LUW (on Linux) should support the Weka Filesystem. https://www.weka.io/resources/white-papers/wekaio-architectural-whitepaper The WekaFS is available on Amazon Cloud (AWS) and allows snapshot functionality (during suspend I/O) which is current...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Future consideration

For RSS and HDR nodes partition the apply work by transaction id instead of partnum.

For RSS and HDR nodes currently the apply work is partitioned across threads by partnum, We would like the option to partition the work across apply threads by transaction id. Currently RSS apply threads have to syncronise with the other apply...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

When LOAD Utility fails due to claimers, locks in the object, this should be reported as with REORG and switch phase

When LOAD Utility fails due to claimers, locks in the object, this should be reported as with REORG and switch phase
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CIS benchmark guide for Cognos Analytics

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our internal security teams expect all product owners to submit CIS (security hardening) guidelines document. I am able to find for DB2 at https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/ibm_db2 But I can't find any for...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Open DataStage Flows directly from Watson Pipeline Orchestration Flow

Currently, DataStage developers cannot open a parallel job directly from a sequence job. In this case, providing a way to go directly to the DataStage flow from the orchestration pipeline that is invoking the job would reduce the number of hops/cl...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

SQLJ Add support for use of Java Array in IN predicate

We would like to see support of Java type ARRAY for IN-LISTs. The use case would look like: SqljCtx sqljCtx = getSqljCtx(); Array fkpzOfflKtoIdsArray = sqljCtx.getConnection().createArrayOf("TIMESTAMP", fkpzOfflKtoIds); FremdkontoOfflineIterator i...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow replication from Kafka as a source

It would be good to support replications from Kafka as a source to other targets. This idea might sound strange if this were the only replication happening, but this could be part of a "cascading" replication, e.g. if data is replicated from Db2 t...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Allow the application of users local time on timestamps in data export

Safer payments generated timestamps are stored in UTC and are converted using the users preferences (my account) when displayed in the UI (queries or case management). When export dating the raw data is used and timestamps are exported in UTC. Thi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Set up "sent from" email address in task/schedule

We use tasks and schedules to send all our reports to all departments.Now because the creator of the task is also the emailaddress which is used, he/she also gets all responses to that automaticly sent reports. We would like to set up an emailaddr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Digital cards and deletion of tokens

The requirements described in additional details are alternatives, only one should be implemented depending on the effort and the planned delivery date. The customer would like to decide on one of the solutions together with IBM.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration