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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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Provide lsmake parallel compilation tool for aarch64 systems.

Our engineers make wide-spread use of lsmake to parallelise their compilations across our x86 nodes, and wish to use the same toolset on aarch64 nodes.
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

IBM OpenPages required to retrieve password from CyberArk

To integrate OpenPages with CyberArk Agent for password retrieval, the current OpenPages approach of storing encrypted password on OpenPages server is not acceptable. IBM OpenPages needs to retrieve password from CyberArk Agent on-demand using one...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Delivered

Improve ISPF QM Main Panel Layout

The ISPF panel for Db2 Query Monitor is poorly laid out and confusing, which makes it hard for the user to understand how to use it. The layout is also inconsistent with the layout of the main ISPF panel of other products in the Db2 Tools Portfoli...
12 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Delivered

PAW: Waterfall charts - Name of the "Sum" column should be configurable

There should be an option to change the name of the Sum column. This option could be in the properties tab.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Enable 'Temporal' for DB2...

V12R1M500 enables to optionally activate/deactivate 'Temporal RTS tables'. Please provide to optionally and granular activate/deactivate 'Temporal catalog .... AUTH tables'. We know that temporal for catalog tables will require that the insert int...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Edit pencil size and placement is different between data cells and a single cell widget

I find that the placement of the blue pencil icon to edit a value/comment in a single cell widget is not ideal and different compared to an exploration data cell. In a data cell the edit pencil can be found to the right center position, whereas th...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

This is a request for CDC/IIDR to provide an augmented timestamp, using an ordinal/sequence number on top of the Db2 LUW second granularity....to give better ordering for JMS targets.

FedEx initially benefits but later on all companies doing replication from mainframe platform to LUW. CDC/IIDR retrieves timestamps (via @timstamp) from the source DBMS. When the source is Db2/z, for instance , we return their timestamp which is...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Support of data type "NUMBER" for JDBC wrapper

SQL1823N No data type mapping exists for data type "NUMBER" from Server "xxx" Case TS000096160
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Delivered

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use. It would be nice to have a setting such as: MA...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

LISTAGG - Reduce workfile usage of function LISTAGG

The function LISTAGG uses a lot of workfile space. This can lead to abends, especially if there are many groups. This is the specific case where the problem occurred in our company: SELECT A.GES_SL, A.VNR, A.POS_LNR , SUBSTR(LISTAGG(TA_ID,'/') WIT...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered