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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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Dynamically change IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR without restarting DB2

The IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR can be set to a certain number in the configuration screen but there is also an option to enter a number of ‘reserved’ IFLs. It was explained that the reserved amount would require restarting the internal Db2wh...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Optim support on open source Linux

We are limited to using RHEL for Optim installs on Linux. Supporting other Linux flavors such as Ubuntu, CentOS, or AlmaLinux is desirable to drive down support costs.
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Remove limitation on tables with XMl column

Today there is some limitations on tables with XML column. For example, we can't alter the table with ALTER PARTITION partotion-clause for LIMITKEYS. This limit cause us to drop and recreate the table with a lot of data(xml) and for downtime. We a...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provision to carry out DML activities

1. Grants_On_Table/View 2. GRANT_EXECUTE_PLAN 3. GRANT_EXECUTE_PROCEDURE 4. GRANT_USE_ON_TABLESPACE 5. Grant Sequence
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Custom Reports formatting to be retained when created from Exploration

Custom reports allow for complete formatting control by the user using standard Excel functionality., BUT there is currently no seeding of the formatting from the originating exploration view. Workaround is not satisfactory - copy/paste formatting...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not Add the Planning Analytics COM Addin to MS Word

When we install Planning Analytics for Excel, 2 Excel Addin and 1 COM addin are added to Excel However the COM Addin "IBM Framework for Office" is also added to Word Users are facing various problems in Word because of this Addin. Performance issu...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mutli-cube table

(Please refer to the file for detailed screenshots) In the following example, we want to create a book in which end-user can define a mapping for an allocation. We wish here to allocate Shared Adv & Marketing Expenses (from Europe Mkt services...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add Thread Package Detail in the Enhanced 3270 UI

Add Thread Package (DB2) Detail in the Enhanced 3270 UI
over 2 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Future support on non persistent VDI platform

In the past year, I get the sense that there is a growing demand for VDI platform for SPSS. the VMWare Horizon seems to be more common. I have encountered an issue with Stats v. 28.0.1.1 when installing it on a non-persistent VDI platform: It seem...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration

db2val should allow to receive credencial as parameters

The db2val command cannot check databases when using a external security plugin like Centrify. In this case, this command should allow to specify the user and password to connect to a database.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration