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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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[Installation and Upgrade] Install - New Installation type: Management Console and Management Client

Currently, there are the following three installation types only.- Management Node- Compute Node- Client- Symphony DE But it's better to have new installation type "Management Console" or "Management Client".It contains ego/soam commands, but it d...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ------...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Use credential manager to save the ID to be used tos ave report outputs

Use different credential in windows server to save the report output in the external report share
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Classic CDC - INCLUDESSID option

As a result of PMR 73348,101,616 and a subsequent meeting held between the client and the CDC development team, we discussed the creation of a new option to INCLUDESSID as an alternative to EXCLUDESSID. At this meeting we were requested to raise t...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 - Support for Range-list index Scan in rowset Cursors

Range-list index scan is not supported for a cursor with rowset positioning. Rowset positioning is very popular as multiple fetch is very efficient for reading several rows from a result set. Range-list index scan is very efficient for SQL paginat...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 PBR RPN: Reduce DSSIZE per Partition

With PBR RPN, it is possible to set a DSSIZE for one or more partitions. While it is possible to set a greater DSSIZE for a partition, it is currently not possible to set a DSSIZE smaller than the one for the Tablespace. When setting a smaller DSS...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

two-factor authentication

remove the two-factor authentication from this site.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

"Create and run diagnostics" jobs action should available under "View platform health" permission

Related Epic CPDIDEAS-I-795 We have certain group of restricted users, who need to have permission for collect diagnostics data in case of any problem encounter with CPD and open support ticket with IBM. But these group of restricted users shouldn...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Builtin function to convert unix timstamps

A lot of applications using unix timestamps (number of seconds since 1970-01-01). For example DMC (Data Management Console) is using this. For DBAs and application developer it would be much easier to have a builtin function to convert this unix t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration

Test Shell Button for access by shell

In the Connection Profiles you have to add username and password for accessing Db2. As well there's a button 'Test connection' to test the connection. When you define user defined alerts in your monitoring profile you're able to define sql and she...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration