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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add new column in Db2 catalog table

when IBM is planning to add a "LASTUSED" column on the DB2 for z/OS sysibm.systables table.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support remote log reading from ASMFD devices

When Oracle Database redo and archived log files are stored in ASM under Linux, and ASMFD is used as part of the ASM setup, IBM CDC agent is not able to read these logs remotely. Oracle seems to recommend the use of ASMFD under Linux, as it "simpl...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Provide lsmake parallel compilation tool for aarch64 systems.

Our engineers make wide-spread use of lsmake to parallelise their compilations across our x86 nodes, and wish to use the same toolset on aarch64 nodes.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

View Tabular data in Excel format

See tabular data in different format (Excel) other than HTML in 11.1.7 ? We have a work around provides the data in Excel, however, it takes twice as long. The query runs once for HTML, then has to run again for Excel. If we have the option to run...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

Add IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) support to IBM Optim for on z/OS

Many z/OS customers deploy IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) dataset encryption to protect their sensitive PCI and PII data. IBM Optim data extract datasets contain such sensitive PCI and PII data unloaded from Db2 for z/OS tables and must be encrypte...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 3 Delivered

turn off intent

Currently, if we have "seasonal" intents, we have to pull them out and save them somewhere. There is no way to turn them off at certain times of the year. It would be helpful to have an on/off switch for intents. Better yet would be a means to hav...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Delivered

Improve ISPF QM Main Panel Layout

The ISPF panel for Db2 Query Monitor is poorly laid out and confusing, which makes it hard for the user to understand how to use it. The layout is also inconsistent with the layout of the main ISPF panel of other products in the Db2 Tools Portfoli...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Delivered

Teradata Assets - Column analysed incorrectly as Primary Key

In Teradata the assets are defined as PRIMARY INDEX and UNIQUE PRIMARY INDEX. If a column is a PRIMARY INDEX, it is not a primary key until UNIQUE is mentioned.
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Edit pencil size and placement is different between data cells and a single cell widget

I find that the placement of the blue pencil icon to edit a value/comment in a single cell widget is not ideal and different compared to an exploration data cell. In a data cell the edit pencil can be found to the right center position, whereas th...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Release one restriction of pureScale

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.perf.doc/doc/c0009677.html In a pureScale environment, space that is freed up by a delete transaction on one member may not be reused by an insert transaction on a ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Delivered