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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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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

Modeling Function to Pivot / Unpivot tables

Many tables are stored in efficient database structures. It is very common the data needs to be pivoted from a row based table to a column-based table in order to calculate across columns (or vice-versa). Pivot and unpivot are common sql functions...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mode 1 Users can change their own Password in Pafe

In security Mode 1, Pafe users are unable to change their password. Having such functionality would seem to be a basic feature of any client / server software and does exist in the legacy clients.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 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

Add more characters in the custom attribute of the description

Today, there is a limitation of 255 characters when creating a custom attribute in the description field
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 8 Future consideration

Capability to add grouping custom attribute for Governance artefacts

Capability to add grouping custom attribute for Governance artefacts. This could be an alternative solution to requirement number 1 on this list. - similar to what is done in assets
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Make available Knowledge Accelerators in French

Make available the Knowledge Accelerators in French or translate them in the product. Quebec has legal requirements to do business in Franch.
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Tools Customizer library includes NEW and OLD BIND jobs

Tools Customizer library includes both the NEW and OLD BIND jobs.This is confusing to the customer, as it is not clear which BIND jobs need to be run.
5 months ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide metadata that is not applicable to the component

You want to have the ability to hide metadata that is not applicable to the component being edited: term, rule. You only want to see what is applicable to the subject to avoid typing errors. Seeing metadata that is not applicable to a subject gene...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

zLinux Support for IIDR VSAM Remote

Global Payments requests to have an S390 ZLinux Build for IIDR VSAM. Currently DB2z has zLinux support, but Global Payments also has IMS and VSAM, and would like to include both IMS and VSAM support. This includes the windows management console to...
5 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Planned for future release