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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support for UR requested with column organized tables

Actually we're preparing a new Warehouse on DB2 BLU 11.5.5 on AIX using column organized tables. In an early technical examination we found, that concurrent access under isolation level UR ( reporting application ) and updating the same rows will ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Automatic deletion of empty SYSDISC datasets

BMC LOAD...DELETEFILES YES SYSDISC YES causes an empty SYSDISC file to be deleted. Also it appears this happens automatically when PARALLEL is used with the IBM utility but only with PARALLEL.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Searching for widget properties in PAW

We could probably debate forever about what properties of a widget belong in which category but, for example. Under Visualization , Column and Row Headers we have options to do with the format of the headers. Under Custom, Table Style, we hav...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Increase dasd volume limit beyond 1 disk

With our current storage configuration, CDC is giving a IEC032I E37-08 on our sysut1. It's our understanding that CDC does not currently allow multivolume datasets. We're requesting that 'feature' be added.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Forward Repair Screen Sort Options

We are looking to have the Forward Repair monitoring screen to be sorted in Date Order so we can easily locate the processing day while viewing the screen. See attached.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Future consideration

DB2z Custom Routing of Utility Messages to DDs

Sometimes you need to quickly review only certain utility messages from a very large output of several utility executions, or only a few where there might've been many, many objects processed. It is very awkward to have to go through perhaps thous...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Patched Spark 2.4.3 as new micro version

Supporting multiple patched versions of Spark 2.4.3 on a cluster, in order to facilitate per SIG Spark 2.4.3_patchversion roll out. This will require a Spark 2.4.3_version for every new patch.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Ability to refresh a single Map and not the entire Maplib in batch

Modify the AVZMREFB REXX to allow for the refresh of a single VSAM MAP and not the entire Maplib. When controlling the refresh of VSAM maps in a batch environment where the VSAM files are reloaded frequently there is the need to control the refres...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IGI Service Center - Request approvation in external panel

Hi, is it possible to have request details and accept/refuse it in the IGI Service Center approval panel, without the mandatory step of access in every single request in order to check the details? It would improve the user experience.
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Welcome Page for new user

a) Welcome page only for new users, first time in the system. b) Welcome page can be defined for each user group. c) Possibility to run processes or chores for new user to set up his environment.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration