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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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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...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 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...

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...
about 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...
about 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...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

COGNOS on Linux / OPTIM ODM on Linux Connection using JDBC

We are trying to use Cognos to perform reporting against Archived data (IBM Optim).
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Generate Encrypted Password During Silent Install of Web Tier/Gateway

For Linux, to install only the gateway on our webserver, we need to use a silent connect and install (cannot use GUI and will automate installation later). For a gateway only install, the installvariables.properties state that the encrypted passwo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide an easy way to de-allocate the underlying Linear dataset when needed without dropping and recreating table spaces and index spaces.

Component: DDL? Data Definition Language? There are cases when a table has change its usage and may remain empty for a very long time or not use anymore but still required to be defined in Db2. In this case, it would be good to have a better way o...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expand the scope of the RENAME DDL.

Moving forward with self-provisioning for developers, adherence to the company's naming standards and rules may be a necessity. The RENAME command should apply to table spaces, table schema, table, index, triggers, views, constraints, etc. This wa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to customise the format of drill-downs in TM1Web

In TM1Web reports, it would be very helpful to have the ability to customise the format of the drilldown report view inside TM1Web, which would then drive the formatting of exports to Excel. Currently the view isn't to our liking and also whenever...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration