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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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Enable sampling for RUNSTATS

Currently RUNSTATS for non-Db2 virtual tables or virtual views will pull all data from the map and then calculate the stats values. When millions of records are present, the process begins to exceed the subsystem limits on cpu and memory. We would...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

AVZLINE support for outbound connections

We have a REXX script named REXUSER, provided a few years ago, that processes connections for ACI/Adabas users. It issues command RXRC = AVZRXPC(SUBSYS,'DISPLAY', 'REMU', 500, 1920 ) then parses the line details. We would like to use this (or simi...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Export to slice on views in PAW

Exporting a view to a slice is a capability that existed in TM1 web, we used it often when tweaking a familiar view and then saving the report with live formulas.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Show IIPCP Eligible data in Operational Summaries and Activity by SQL Text

In CPU panel information it would be very userful to have information about IIPCP eligible data, I mean the CPU time consumed on standard CP for work eligible on IBM speciality engine (zIIP). Additionally this data could be used to create an excep...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Mass creation or migration of Virtual Target System maps

Our goal is to use the same VTS names in our formal test environments that are used in production so that developers do not need to change them during the import/export process. On the test environments, we simply point the VTS's to the test endpo...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Error message improvement

We request na addition to the error messages for this specific scenario: While converting non-UTS tablespaces to UTS using SECQTY 0 the opperation returned only the message DSNI014I reason code 00C90101, no message indicating space shortage in tab...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration

RCSA Completion Helper - Control Eval is not Associated with more than one Risk Eval

In many cases a single Control mitigates multiple Risks. In such a case, a single Control is associated to multiple Risks. Though, when RCSA Completion Helper runs, the corresponding Control Eval is only associated to the primary Risk's Risk Eval....
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Reduce latch content when we use nested SPs/UDFs

We faced a big problem with latch contention in our environment due to nested SPs and UDF in 3 levels, so it did not make sense for us, because of that we opened the IBM case to treat this issue.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Informix 4gl based Datablades

I would like the ability to create database/SPL's using Informix 4GL syntax and features. I know forms and such wouldn't work but I could then leverage legacy into efficient data retrieval processes for for Java and Typescript to access
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow DSMAX to be set by Db2 command

Our installation has repeatedly had trouble with Db2 shutting down in a timely fashion for IPLs. We have taken dumps and sent them to IBM and IBM has stated repeatedly that the delay in shutdown involves dataset close. We set DSMAX very high and h...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration