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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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Defaut DATA BUFFER value in LOAD.

Wells Fargo requested if it possible to come up with a lower default value for DATA BUFFER without specifying DATA BUFFER in the load command. For example a registry variable like LOAD_DEFAULT_DATA_BUFFER=1000 that would take effect whenever the l...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

New privilege for IMPORT into a restrictive database

Granting DATAACCESS authority works but is not a desirable option as the user would get access to all tables. Granting CONTROL or INSERT/SELECT, without DATAACCESS, returns SQL0551N. As a result customers are left on their own to pursue and figure...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Security / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Create a storage group in a specific database partition group.

After discussing with Pavel Sustr & Quentin Presley there is current no plans to for this hence the request. I'm copied the initial e-mail request. Is there any plan to allow storage group definition, in DPF, to apply to a particular dbpart gr...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Improve poor query compilation performance due to long lock list traversal in DB2 10.1 and later

Beginning with DB2 LUW 10.1 DGTT-referencing DML started to take catalog locks and therefore we have to free them and potentially traverse long lock chain if the DML is a part of a long-running transaction potentially holding millions of locks. Th...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Extract Data signon UserName from Data source connections

We want to get the user id that Cognos uses to connect to the reporting Database. I am able to get the credentials from the data source sign on (doing a search on dataSourceSignon) However it is in encrypted form. This is important for management ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

hide or remove user from the MDMCS

I would like to see a soft delete option to user management from visibility in the UI, perhaps add a third button to hide unused and inactive users. For audit purposes, I do not want the user deleted from the database
almost 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Allow Db2 SysAdmins to specify explicit numbers of DIR or DATA entries, as an alternative to RATIO

The Challenge The current mechanism for specifying the number of Directory Entries and/or Data Pages in a Group Bufferpool is the RATIO parameter. This worked well enough when memory sizes were small. With Db2 for z/OS bufferpools in the 10s ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Query History - Ability to mask the key value on SQL Text

Stored procedures SYSPROC.ACCEL_GET_QUERIES andSYSPROC.ACCEL_GET_QUERY_DETAILS return information about past queries and queries that are currently running onan accelerator. We need capability to be able to turn mask the key values on the SQL text...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable RTM to honour usergroup permissions so that a user can control all jobs via RTM that they can via LSF

We have configured many of our usergroups to be their own admin, which means that any member of that usergroup can manage any job submitted by any user via that usergroup. However, in RTM Grid->Job Info ->Details page the user can only contr...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Attributes in Workspace

When adding attributes to a view within PAW, you are able to select as many attributes as you want. If by chance you select many attributes, then you can no longer see the data as the attributes table does not have a scroll.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration