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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.

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Database level optimization guideline

Currently when there is a problem with the access plan of the query, we generally ask customer to use guideline. Sometimes they cannot use guideline and we ask then to use optimization profile. Optimization profile works fine but there is a very...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Startup Chore respect MTQ setting

The processes called from a Startup Chore do not respect the MTQ setting, i.e., it only uses one CPU. When the startup chore calls a process to execute a ViewConstruct, using multiple CPUs is very desirable.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customer requesting JSON data type support in 4GL

Two customer using 4GL as main development system, request support for JSON variables or JSON casting in 4GL for being able to use BSON columns in 4GL.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

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

Ability to upgrade the MDM database while running docker deployment

Enable the Configure_MDM_Interactive.sh script to perform MDM database upgrade if required. When the script executes, it can take an input from the customer on whether database upgrade has to be performed and can invoke the upgrade if required. Th...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF

Creating this RFE based on the below response from IBM:This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF has been an 'issue' for a long time. I have verified that it still occurs in CA11. Unfortunately, it was deemed not to be a defect in...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][CommerzBank] - EGO API for User Management - REST API for User Add/Remove/Modify as the solution

Java API from 5.1 (UserAdmin) has been depreciated and there is no replacement EGO API in Symphony 6.1.1 which can manage user add/remove.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 5 Not under consideration