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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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ANSI SQL-99 Support in DVM

A customer recently conducted a PoC using DVM and z/OS Connect as an alternative to an existing ETL based system which does nightly offloads of IMS data from the mainframe into a SQL Server database which is accessed by client applications. The ex...
almost 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow Template to populate output datasets such as PUNCHDDN to utilize PDSE's

If I use a listdef for an unload utility, I am forced to create a separate dataset for each tablespace in the listdef for PUNCHDDN's Template. I am requesting the ability to specify a PDSE in the PUNCHDDN and each tablespace would create a like na...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data for Availability V1.2 RFE for tablespaces objects replication

IBM Data for Availability V1.2 (IBM Db2 Replication for Continuous Avalability) lacks replication of CREATE, ALTER, DROP and other statements like authorise and revoke for tablespace objects. When using IIAS console to define table replication whi...

Improving QREP online operation

ABC(Agriculture Bank of China) have implemented A-A based on QREP. Due to its huge number of data volume, the maintenance related to A-A is extreme complex. The more easy operation of QREP the more maintenance convenience.1. In some case, certain ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Being able to collect attached file in chat conversation

Hi, It would be great if we could collect a file during a conversation (even small file like word document) Example 1: - A user connect to the chat and want to apply for a job offer after vewing all the current opportunities, he entrer his n...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Access LOB data when using the WQLS list for IFCID 0306

The WQLS list allows the IFI READS 306 interface to limit the log records returned into the I306 buffer to just the DB and PS table ID combinations found in the WQLS list. Unfortunately, if you have tables that contain LOB columns you cannot retur...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Using 64-bit common storage with IFI READS 306 (IFCID 0306)

When reading log records using IFI READS 306 we now have the capability of specifying a 64-bit pointer to common storage. The dsnwlir function call requires five parameters. The second parameter is an IFCA pointer and we must set the IFCAFLGS valu...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automation for FXH war file deployment

We are interested in automating the manual steps of upgrades (e.g. FTM 3.2.6 - > 3.2.9) We usually run a DSU for Digital Payments, which installs ears, wars, etc. For IP, we usually have some manual steps to place jar files and wars. Would like...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL instance is only DUAL from build 5607, only-source is needed

Since build 5607 of 27 September the CDC PostgreSQL instance has become DUAL (supports source and target). For security reasons it would be essential for us to have the possibility to make the instance only source as it is possible to do with the ...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

[PASS] Support Text Orientation

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/align-or-rotate-text-in-a-cell-8bf8177a-d2e8-4f5c-a707-d51625fd7758 Many reports from many organisations may require to format their report labeling/headers/columns in a non-horizontal orientation. This c...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration