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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

Cognos not able to connect to LDAP using Domain Name with multiple A records

Cognos Analytics 11.0.x and 11.1.x have an issue with connecting to LDAP using domain name when the domain name is configured using DNS with multiple records. We are raising this enhancement request as per the recommendation from IBM support ana...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ODBC link to progress

Our finance system uses a progress database. I have been told that this cannot be linked to TM1/PAW. This means we have to use spreadsheets to get data from the finance system into PAW.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Japanese Address standardization (UCSFREQADDR) stops dividing the Japanese Kanji characters

To compare the address data written in Japanese with the AXP, we should select the UCSFREQADDR for the Address standardization function. When we derive the data including the Japanese addresses, the Kanji characters in the prov and the city weren'...
almost 5 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

External Link Management within the Watson Assistant console

Virtual assistants will often provide links to external websites as part of its dialog. There's currently no easy way to manage these external links within the console. It would be nice to easily configure an external link so that it displays to a...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 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

The rewrite from non-correlated sub-select to a correlated sub-select should happen in additional cases

This was submitted initially as a case with ID TS002883559. The following query is not rewritten by Db2 (from non-correlated to correlated): SELECT *FROMPDBR111.VLCR004_NODELS TLCRTABLE0X0_ LEFT OUTER JOIN(SELECT * FROM PDBR111.TLCR002 A WHERE A...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing names of docker images for different instances

Information from Case numbers: TS002979327 and TS002990656 We are testing datastage 11.7.1 (kubernetes version) In case# TS002979327, following was recommended: ----- 2) you needed to modify your /etc/hosts file on your client machine with:<...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration