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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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Value 00000 on variable &PART in TEMPLATE for partitioned by growth tablespaces

We would like that value of &PART becomes 00000 for partitioned by growth tablespaces on the template's DSN. The response on PMR 27187,999,838 is that this needs to be a RFE. As you can see in PMR 27187,999,838, we have processes that does a f...
about 5 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Service Package Version Reset and/or Forsibly Deploy

If Symphony shared directory was restored by some reasons (ex. Disaster Recovery, Hardware Renewal, Hardware broken, etc.), RS couldn't deply newer SI package until the version number was incremented to the version number deployed on compute node....
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

[Support Matrix] Matrix - Oracle Standard Edition support for Symphony 6.1.1

We changed the Oracle support policy from v6.1.1 and it make customer hard now.Symphony v6.1.1 support only Oracle Enterprise edition.It is barrier for customer to upgrade Symphony now. Old version Symphony (v6.1.0.1, v5.x) supported Oracle and it...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Add retention policies to extract files

In Optim Test Data Management the Optim Extract file is only of use for a limited period and can contain sensitive information if it's the initial extract from a production system. Practically customers do not wish to, nor should they hang on to e...
about 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

When exporting snapshot from IBM to Excel the first sheet is not named correctly

When exporting snapshot from IBM applications to Excel and the report has multiple sheets, the first sheet is not named (appended), rather the first sheet is the sheet "as-is" that the user sees in TM1 Web / PAW Websheets and thus does not get ren...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default value for DECLARED GLOBAL TEMPORARY Table

Current default for DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE is ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS. We would like to have the ability to change this via a zparm to ON COMMIT DROP TABLE so that we maximize our thread resuse.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include a repeat counter for execution multiple times in Hierarchical stage.

Currently I know of a number of companies that are using the Hierarchical Stage (such as Walmart and Vanguard) for pulling data from cloud services such as ServiceNow or Archer. Because there is no looping structure within the Enterprise pallet (e...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

give RTCL download link on Connection Information page for customers who use the db2 CLP

Long term Db2-LUW users often use the db2 CLP (on Windows or Linux/unix) to run scripts. If those customers try out the Db2 on cloud offering, the only *matching* version of a Db2-client that is offered for download via the Connection-Info page is...
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Decimal support for BE/NL in PAW

We are facing an issue in our Planning Analytics Workspace using websheets.We are unable to fill in decimal numbers in either format (e.g. 10.2 or 10,2).The sheets work fine in perspectives/PAX, and you can fill in the decimals there, but not in t...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

[CE] Platform Symphony Management GUI - Solaris Sparc - BBK

We use a Symphony Version 5.0 in a pure Solaris 10 Sparc 64 bit Infrastructure including the Platform Management Console GUI. All used servers are based on Solaris Sparc architectureThe Symphony Grid infrastructure is implemented in two regions --...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration