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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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MS SQL SERVER 2017/2019 Replication target/source support

Now is mid of 2019, but the latest MS SQL Server support is version 2016. Customer is upgrading their MS SQL Server to 2017 and above. And found the Queue Replication does not support the new 2017 server. Failed to create control table.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Not under consideration

dataModules Expression variables API

we´re digging into dataModule usage and we´ve found some samples wich, inside dataModule, uses some advanced expressions to define month to date (MTD) calculations over dates. We´d like to find full support about the posibilites of this expression...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support for UR requested with column organized tables

Actually we're preparing a new Warehouse on DB2 BLU 11.5.5 on AIX using column organized tables. In an early technical examination we found, that concurrent access under isolation level UR ( reporting application ) and updating the same rows will ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Expected FTM-MER NOT to split bank/location or Prefix/Suffix

Expected FTM-MER NOT to split bank/location or Prefix/Suffix. Field 22 - for MT305 / MT600 Field 22C - for MT300, MT320 For example, current MERVA: Party Ref Party PBBEK0 0175 PBBEPX FTM-MER: Party Prefix PBBE Party Suffix K0 Ref 0175 Party Prefix...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Customer needs a new function that can easily compare source and target.

My customer is using IIDR for IMS for z/OS.(all DEDB)They need a new function that can easily compare source DB and target DB.As an alternative, there is a way to compare both unload data, but there are two problems.- Both unloads must be executed...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Support AVRO Format ( binary ) with HDFS Agent

Support AVRO Format ( binary ) with HDFS Agent
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CAM Copy User Security Group Assignment

In the current design of CAM, the administrator can copy a group and it is working fine. However, when we want to copy a user's profile, it became impossible, as there is no visibility for us to know what group the user is belong to. In many occas...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

create schedules but not reports

To create more fine-grained permissions, so we could grant "Write schedules" but prohibit "Write reports", or something like that
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Unload to support parallelism for LOB Tablespaces

We are trying to unload large LOB tablespaces in a performant manner. Please see PMR 76429 999 866 in relation to this. IBM Unload currently issues misleading messages saying parallelism will be invoked. However this is not the case and the utilit...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add NEWMIRRORLOGPATH option to the restore command

This should be a fairly simple change/addition and prevent the possibilty that the mirrorlogs end up in the old databases mirrorlogpath by misstake or during the time it takes for the administrator to do the change manually, since the change will ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration