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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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Field-level changes using temporal tables

We're using DB2 temporal tables (in BigSQL) to track history on some of our core tables, and have the following need from downstream systems that use this data. Is there a way to track column level changes using DB2 temporal tables to pull out...
about 6 years ago in Db2 4 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS v10 - Change the ALTER native_SQL_proc REGENERATE statement to accept APRETAINDUP, APREUSE, and APCOMPARE options.

This change needs to be made so customers can REGENERATE NSPs in DB2 Version 10 for VSCR and potential CPU savings without changing access paths. Furthermore, the same reasons used to justify adding APRETAINDUP, APREUSE, and APCOMPARE options to t...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Timestamp in IIDR for VSAM messages in GMT (not local time zone)

The timestamp in IIDR server logs is GMT. When we switch to BST, the timestamp is confusing as shows as 1 hour behind.
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Classic CDC/ IIDR for VSAM needs to send only needed data for Replication

Classic CDC/IIDR for Vsam capture is sending the before values for all fields in source VSAM datasets.This adds significant overhead. The capture needs to send the before and after values of the key column and before and after image of the changed...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Allow commonly used Entities and Intents to be flagged for global use across multiple workspaces.

Similar to system entities, allow the creation of user defined 'global' Entities and Intents that can be deployed across multiple workspaces but only need to be maintained once in a global library. Examples being Intents/Entities for, yes/no optio...
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Planned for future release

Unable to see hierarchy attributes in the Data directory

Unable to see hierarchy attributes in the Data directory without either restarting the TM1 server or performing a Save Data all
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide convenient way for user to track status of requested notifications

*** Idea originated from Cheryl *** Currently in the PDT feature, since download or preview of PDT asset can take a long time, user has option to click on "Notify Me" button to be sent a notification when the download or preview is ready. The us...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhance functionality of ...

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about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Informix PSM to sync the LLog IDs

Be able to synchronize the Object Id, with Logical Log IDs. At least to have a onpsm option to query the object ID by the Log Id, something like this: onpsm -L detail -l
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Track the oldest read-for-update in the bookmark to know where to start rebuilding read-for-updates on restart

VSAM Replication to track the oldest read-for-update in the bookmark to know where to start rebuilding read-for-updates on restart. This is required to resolve the issues we have been experiencing when our application does a read-for-update hours ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration