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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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Have GEN and DDL generate Implicit objects but have them commented out for future use if needed

A Case was opened with IBM for GOC batch. Support could never recreate it using the DDL which was provided. It was later found out that this DB had implicit objects. The implicit objects in the DDL member provided were never generated. I am purpos...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

VEMKD performance improvement by caching VEM_LOGON

When we do regression test say 800 instances, 50K slots, we found out VEMKD thinking a long time. By having checked performance, it took minutes to finish VEM_LOGON. We request to either cache logon information to eliminate unnecessary ones
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

User defined Grid Columns

Introduce the ability for users to amend columns in a grid view swapping in and out object fields
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Incorporate standard logging of events on OpenPages application server

Our company have a standard in submitting all application logs to our enterprise SIEM tool for monitoring. We had inquired with the OpenPages Product Support team but their response was at the time, no standard messaging capabilities - see TS00260...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Future consideration

Drill thru Map visualization with define properties

Drill thru Map visualization with define properties Some query items are not in the map visualization for the drill through. The user wants to set define properties like in a list, so he can drill through on query subjects that are not in the map
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Spark job will be fail when resource quota not enough

There are lots of Spark Job to run, if a job start and the resource quota is reach maximum, this job will fail. You will wait for job result to know is quota is not enough or you need to check quota every time when you submit a job. For AlibabaClo...
almost 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Add ability to find map dependencies

Before deleting a map, we would like a way to find any other dependent maps. Virtual views that reference the map Web Services that reference the map Virtual tables pointing to other virtual tables on the same (or different) subsystems
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

on DB2 LUW , Create all indexes on nicknames, including those with key greater than 1024 bytes

When I create a nickname on a remote table with an index and the index key is greater than 1024 bytes, the index spécification is not created on the local database : There is no warning for this when the nickname is created, nothing in db2diag.log...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

CDC support for mysql MGR

We used to plan a replication/migration from DB2 to mysql, but failed since CDC did not support mysql MGR topology, and that delayed our plans. Hope this will be achieved soon.
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration