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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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messages on virtual console indicating shutdown in progress

Having an indication that the IDAA is shutting down and then "shutdown completed" would aid operations personnel figure out status of the IDAA during shutdown or system relocation activities triggered by automation (GDPS) etc.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Delivered

Support schema in DVM

We wish to have the possibility with the DVM and UNIXODBC connector to access the DL1 segments using the concepts of "schema" and / or "alias"
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Change IRLM hashing algorithm to offer a better and more efficient distribution of P-locks across LTEs

As per PMR 76883,999,866/TS002531202, when increasing DSMAX and PCLOSET/N parms to reduce TCB DBM1 CPU time owing to less open/close operations, we noticed a significant increase in IRLM CPU time, strongly correlated with higher number of currentl...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Would like means of collecting Maxdbat information by AUTHID

We are in the process of providing max thread limits via the Db2 Profile tables AUTHID entries for our applications. We would like to use a AUTHID=* entry to provide a default thread limit and use AUTHID=xxx values for applications which may need ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Simplify the Scheduled Task to a right click menu (12.2.0.4)

In order to create a Scheduled Task, it requires 11 to 25 or more actions, clicking buttons and entering credentials etc.
over 5 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Machine Learning Standardisation of multiple attributes in PIM V12

Recently, we have learning that machine learning standardisation is applicable on a single attribute only in PIM V12. By looking at Product Descriptor Attributes related to our brand, we have more than 8 attributes that would show to public straig...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Searching a phrase in double quotes (search-in-quotes) for all the functions in ICP4D

Searching a phrase with double quotes is not working in any of the functions of the ICP4D like Catalogs, Projects, Business Terms, Global Search, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Request immediate effect change of DBCREATE_PERMISSION parameter without restarting IDS instance.

I appreciated that security feature DBCREATE_PERMISSION parameter was introduced since IDS 10.00. I would like to request to enhance this feature to be dynamic whereby this parameter can be changed and taking immediate effect online with restartin...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

IDAA Management Console Security Customization Options

Provide greater flexibility for secure separation of duties within IDAA. Currently there is 1 ID with 1 Password which translated into 1 key to every door within IDAA. This scenario simply does not comply with Audit especially for a financial inst...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

MWH index for UETR of InterAct ISO20022 messages

Hi, following the recent delivery in FTM for SWIFT Services 3.2.4 of an UETR MWH-index for FIN messages, the upcoming go-live in Nov 2022 of CBPR+ and HVPS+ with ISO 20022 / InterAct messages including UETR tags in several message types would make...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered