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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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BACKUP INCLUDE LOGS should add logs to backup image as soon as they are closed

Today the log files get added to backup image at end of backup, which could easily cause that log files need to be retrieved from archive that they can be added to backup image. Adding the log files as soon as possible would avoid time consuming a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

PAW Plans: Individual submission of users of the same PAW user group

Right now, after one member of a group submits a task within a Plan in PAW, the task is completed for the entire group and all other team members can no longer submit their part of the task. However, this might not reflect the reality of a plannin...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location.

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location. When using the 'Save As' option in Cognos Analytics, the default location is set to the Team Content root instead of the current location where the user is currently working.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add "IF EXISTS" syntax to all DROP statements

More and more SQL is stored in repositories and needs to be applied in odd places and orders. One syntax element that supports this is the "IF EXISTS" on a drop statement. This causes a statement to not count as a failure if it finds no object to ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Subscription maintenance in flight as add table, table error, set full refresh flag and etc.

We are testing CDC for DB2 z/OS as mainly producer of data replication to another CDC engines as kafka and oracle, so to much cdc admin issues is happening here, for example: when just one table of subs receives a error the entire subscription is ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC termination for unresponsive IFI requests

CDC tasks do not issue any error message when multiple subscriptions trying to read from tape concurrently and just hang the task address space (please refer to case TS014574671 for more details). The subscriptions are still in "Mirror Continuous"...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Support for Shielded VM on GCP

D&B is key customer who is looking to deploy Cloud Pak for Data on GCP with Shielded VMs. It is critical for success. all nodes will be shielded nodes and they will be shielded at all times. i.e. we cannot disable shielding during install/upgr...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Allow Flagging Jobs for Reservation Through Rules and/or Through a "bsub --plan" Option

Today, reservations in LSF are handled by the Top X jobs by ordered by Dynamic Priority using the variable MAX_JOB_RESERVE. We believe that this is a shotgun approach. We have millions of jobs a day that require 1 cores and less than 1GB of memory...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to delete objects from an instance & application

Objects can be decommissioned when they become redundant, and so being able to delete indexes/tables/databases etc from instances and applications needs to be supported by DOE.
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Access to SQL Performance Analyzer from CAE (Web Client)

If you use Db2 Query Monitor on TSO/ISPF and your company owns Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer(SQL PA), you can call SQL PA to “explain” the access path for the query. And, optionally, perform what-if analysis. Let’s have the same functionality for t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration