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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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Limit the number of tape drives allocated when using a TEMPLATE with STACK NO specified

In our reorg utilities against lobs using inline image copy it is required to use STACK NO, however, since we image copy to tape it causes the DB2 utility to acquire multiple tape drive units all at once for each partition of a UTS. This is an iss...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Delivered

Please bring back select/unselect check box

In earlier cognos releases prior to 11, we could select/unselect entries using check box, so I could select all entries by just one click. There is no way to do it in Cognos 11, making it extremely difficult and time consuming to select items.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 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...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Display Logged In User Info in Home App Bar

Show the name of the logged in user in the Home App Bar instead of just a "person" icon.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Adding effect sizes to all main statisctical procedures

Adding calculation of effect sizes to all main (non) parametric statistical procedures such as T-testing WITH choice of type of effect size such as Cohen's d.
over 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Delivered

Enhance scheduling of shared GPU jobs to pack jobs on to GPUs

Enhance scheduling of shared GPU jobs to pack jobs on to GPUs
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

IBM Data Replication CDC to support Oracle 18c

Out of our customer base we do have several requests for IBM Data Replication CDC to support Oracle 18c as a source and target.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Encrypted backup information in DB_HISTORY table

Currently there is no information on backup file is encrypted or not in DB_HISTORY table. Would like to see column indicating db backup entry is of encrypted db and backup file is indeed encrypted.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

support for CHG_UPD_TO_DEL_INS=Y in Q-replication z/OS

we are on DB2 z/OS V12R1M509 and are migrating our applications from SQL-replication to Q-replication. we have multiple applications which use Non-Condensed, Non-complete CCD targets and are built around using IBMSNAP_REGISTER CHG_UPD_TO_DEL_INS=Y...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered