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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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Support PostgreSQL for PERF Database

Need this in Symphony 7.3.1 Currently Symphony PERF DB can be configured to use MS SQL Server, Oracle and DB2. PostgreSQL is a powerful open source object-relational database that uses and extends SQL combined with many features that safely store ...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

CDC DB2 range partitioned table not replicating data

CDC DB2 range partitioned table not replicating data whenever there is attach / detach operation performed from source table. We have configured system parameter “range_partitioned_table_support = true “ however it is not replicating data. Partiti...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Drill through window should have maximize button

When users drill through the window is small. When users want to drill through and see more data, they have to first move the screen from the center to the left and then expand the bottom. They need to do this for each time they drill through. Thi...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

FLEXlm supports 'uncounted node locked' Feature Types Report the Checkouts for Them

By default RTM always report 0 max license and 0 in use. However, if you look at the checkouts, there are several in use. Can we get RTM to at least report the number of checked out licenses for this feature class?
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Support S3 Buckets with Object Locks

Db2 already has an integration that supports directly writing/reading to/from to S3 buckets. Unfortunately this integration currently does not support buckets that use object locks. In such a case the following error pops up in the diagnostic log:...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Future consideration

Provide an Option to break out of 'bsub' if a job will not submit due to a user hitting their pending job limit

This is a major problem when using a web service to control jobs, you would much rather have the binary end with an exit code than continually block in a loop saying you have reached your pending jobs limit. It's really bad design behavior IMHO.
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enable instances of a virtual table using a PSB/PCB using a PROCSEQ to use an alternate index (non-root)

Per IBM instances of a virtual table using a PSB/PCB using a PROCSEQ to use an alternate index are only supported for indexes on the ROOT segment. This severely impacts performance for DVM access to IMS data which performs well via IMS using secon...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Track changes made to Data Quality Rules

AEP is looking to track changes made to Data Quality rules. Data stewards are not aware of the changes being made to Data Quality rules, and they are stepping over each other's work as there is no way to track changes made to Data Quality rules. A...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Data Server Metadata - Kerberos Connection

Kerberos, or other passwordless connections are becoming the standard authentication method for data sources. Data Servers are requirements to use web-based modelling. However, to pull metadata in a data server connection requires the user to have...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Population of V12 new added Catalog columns during activation of Function level V12R1M50 and avoid it later during executions of ALTER TABLESPACE because of contention of packages.

After you apply the PTF for APAR PI86123, the first ALTER TABLESPACE, populates any null attributes for objects created in function level V12R1M100 or earlier. When the one-time population occurs for an ALTER TABLESPACE statement, Db2 must quiesce...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration