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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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Auto-start toggle for TM1 databases on IBM PA on Cloud

We have several TM1 databases on PA Cloud (hosted by IBM). When there is maintenance and the data tier is restarted, all TM1 databases start up. Would recommend adding an auto-start toggle on each TM1 database such that sandboxes don't need to aut...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Enhance Db2 Federation to support pushdown of CSE to Oracle

There is a need to support the pushdown of CSEs (Common Subquery Expressions) as part of the federation to Oracle databases. This limitation has existed for quite a while and there has been an ongoing request for this functionality for years.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Delivered

Add support in Db2 Federation for join and aggregation pushdown for MongoDB

Currently, the driver for use with MongoDB does not support the $lookup operator which would allow for the pushdown of the joining of two or more collections to the source DB. Adding support would allow for joining collections at the source and re...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Delivered

Add support in Db2 Federation for the pushdown of Timestamp to MongoDB

Currently Federation to MongoDB does not support the pushdown of the Timestamp data type. This limits the ability to filter data by date or timestamp at the source.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 2 Delivered

Add support for a CLOB data type for MongoDB federation

Currently a long string or text field greater than 32k is truncated when fetching from MongoDB. This limits the data that can be retrieved and processed via Federation from MongoDB and other NoSQL data sources.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Delivered

Certify Oracle 23c for Federation from Db2

The next major release of Oracle (23c) is due out this year (2023) and customers will start to migrate their federated source databases to the new release. We need to ensure that we certify compatibility as soon as possible to keep up with the tec...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Delivered

Allow to disable plugin related requests through HostFactory Rest Api and Symphony GUI

JPMC currently uses Symphony 7.3.1. We intend to allow user to use HostFactory Rest API, from e.g. on-prem to Symphony cluster on AWS. We happen to see Symphony 7.3.2, which we intend to upgrade to later, supports HostFactory plugin related reques...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Delivered

Implementation of DATATYPE DECFLOAT in the creation of an index in DB2 for z/OS

The customer uses DATATYPE DECFLOAT to represent floating point numbers to a base of 10 instead of the base 2 to avoid rounding errors. On DB2 distributed the DATATYPE DECFLOAT is indexable and everything works as required. Requirement is that DAT...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Avoid synchronous preformat in SQL INSERT transactions

[Background]The customer's system providing banking services abroad is exposed to regulatory risk by the local banking regulator.The customer is forced to complete a specific transaction within a second basically.This specific SQL INSERT transacti...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Add few more columns in Db2 Performance database

When we investigate performance issue, performance database is an useful source, because we can run SQL query against the tables to pull out data. But if few more columns could be added to the tables, it would greatly improve the productivity: in ...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered