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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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Enhancements To DB2 or IDAA or Cognos to allow Cognos queries to accessing DB2 to be offloaded to IDAA

We are currently in the process of deploying Cognos on z/OS and are using DB2 z/OS as the metadata repository and, for some applications, the targert DBMS for reporting. Some of the SQL being sent to DB2 is fairly CPU intensive and would be a good...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CSDK C++ API

Please add bigint and bigserial data types to CSDK C++ library
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Table Values functionality

Is it possible to add following functionality to DB2 zos 10, 11 and IDAA 4.1 and above. Apparently it is supported in DB2 LUW. SELECT S.Year, Q.Quarter, Q.ResultsFROM SalesAgg AS S, TABLE (VALUES(1, S.q1), (2, S.q2), (3, S.q3), (4, S.q4)) AS Q(Qua...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] Security - Kerberos - Support Kerberos Library outside of default install location

Kerberos libraries are installed in a non starndard location (outside of /lib and /lib64). Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH helps except with VEMKD and PEM, which fail to start.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Provide Accelerator systems administrator ability to see & set Incremental Update RSG controls

With Incremental Update now being in it's own resource sharing group (V4), the resource management controls (visible to the systems admin) is ambiguous and not flexible. 1) It does not include the relative percentage impact of the new IU resource ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

[Integration Requirement] SOAM - OpenR - Support recursive scheduling with OpenR

Provide the mechanism for Parent Child or recursive scheduling in the openR integeration with Symphony.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Ability to join EBCDIC and UNICODE tables in IDAA

We have a lot of EBCDIC and UNICODE tables in production, and in many cases those tables would have to be joined to execute our operational analytic workloads on IDAA. Altering the objects to make it work is an option since many of those tables ar...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

UPDATE STATISTICS misleading message with AUTO_STAT_MODE active

After running Update Statistics Medium/High for Table XY, the constr_time in sysdistrib is not updated reliably. Turned out that this is because AUTO_STAT_MODE is active and statistics are only updated when determined by the engine this is necessa...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Utilities and DB2 Commands for IDAA

We believe that the usage and control of IDAA should be transparent to the DB2 user. Instead of controlling an IDAA via stored procedures with XML input & XML output (which may or may not be considered as cumbersome or hard to interpret), the ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Transparent LDAP Authentication for Informix

The Informix (AVL) customer T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG requests transparent LDAP authentication for Informix. Last year T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG replaced the complete HP-UX hardware for the application REBELL/Ironman by IBM Power AIX machi...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration