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


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Support for DCOLLECT in HLV loader.

Supporting DCOLLECT in HLV loader. First priority would be record type D(Active), B(Backups) & M(Migrated), but all types would be greatly appreciated.
about 2 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Under review

There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Function Lookup UI for Calculations In Data Modules and Dashboard

Need a good function lookup UI in the Data Module and Dashboard tools, like exists on the Report tool. That would make it very easy to see what your choices are, and how to use them. Right now, there is no UI. Just an expression editor. You need t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0 Future consideration

EMail Template should be allowed to have different Body and Subject for each workflow.

Users will get better explanation for the action to be taken as each workflow has its own motive to send emails to the users.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 6 Not under consideration

issue DISPLAY BLOCKERS instead of DISPLAY CLAIMERS when DRAIN timeout

Currently when DRAIN fails during REORG, a DISPLAY CLAIMERS is issued. The draw back is there is no "age" information, so user does not know which thread is the blocker, because the claimer could also be waiter.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add 'Non-Interactive' Subscription Management Account

In order to automate paw access and environment provisioning on the IBM Cloud, we need a trusted 'non-interactive account' similar to the current tm1_automation non-interactive account which is used to execute and run jobs on a tm1 database from e...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Poor performance on DB2 V11.1 due to changes in build process

Some customers are noticing performance degradations moving from v105 ESE to v111 ESE on the same hardware.These degradations are most pronounced in OLTP workloads, with an emphasis on INSERT and UPDATE operations. Db2 Support has confirmed that t...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Copy or Move sheets from one PAW book to another

There is no option to copy or move a sheet from one PAW book to another. While this can be achieved by pinning every object on the sheet, this is time-consuming. This is particularly useful for a client with several applications designed for diffe...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration