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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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Eliminate display limit when exploding application profiles

We recently had a need to use the Recovery Expert to recover all objects (tablespaces and indexes) in a database with a large number of objects in it. There are about 540 tables and just over 1000 indexes in the database. I created an application ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Expose Global Search Capability for Custom Attributes from UI

When I create a Asset Custom Attribute from IU I cannot make the field globally searchable. I know API has the capability to make the attribute searchable. When will be the global_search_searchable flag be added to UI?
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

SSM to actively detect when SIM is gone

as discussed on TS001503072. A feature enhancement can be used as a tactical solution to the phantom allocation problem by giving SSM a ping mechanism to actively detect if a SIM is gone and trigger the necessary cleanup logic to release the slots...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Delivered

CQMINTV - Empty intervals listing causes slowness

CQMINTV command struggles when it lists too many empty intervals(AVAIL NO). Our DBAs were quite unhappy when they figured out the issue. The problem was when the backstore datasets are removed/deleted from the disc and when CQMINTV list those as e...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Delivered

Externalize 'INZI195I & INZU176I' messages to syslog for more accurate verification of execution status, and provide input for decision making.

In a recent case of HPU execution , it was not possible to act efficiently because the information does not include teblaspace / object
almost 3 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Delivered

Being able to label/tag data source connection

With a large number of data sources (connections) currently residing in the enterprise it is desirable to tag the data sources with multiple identifiers. For example, Application unique Id, Application Name, etc. This is not possible today to iden...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Delivered

PAx : Get current connection string to ease promotion of Quick Report from one environment to an other one

In Planning Analytics for Excel, a Quick Report that have been created is linked to the environment (eg Development) where it has been developed through a connection string.To promote an Excel workbook into an other environment, the workbook must ...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Provide an Operation Level Timestamp for Each Operation

Current DB2 for Z and DB2 LUW shared only the commit timestamp. Only DB2 Z also has the TS of the actual DDL time To emulate like they did for oracle to have a switch to send the DDL time instead of the UOW TS This is for the client -->FEDEX , ...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Incumbent callbacks during polishing

I keep hitting this issue where I have to use something like an incumbent callback from CPLEX in order to report progress, use a custom stopping criterion, save intermediate solutions, etc. This works fine in normal CPLEX B&B, but it seems tha...

Cognos Web - Save before exit

If you dont press "Save" before exiting a form in Cognos Web, you will loose your work. It would be great if Cognos asked if you wanted to save the changes before leaving the form. In Cognos you get this question.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered