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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Avoid system dump when SYSIN DD statement is missing

Customer has forgotten to put a SYSIN DD statement in an UTILITY jcl and the job is ended with messages : > > DSNU000I 08:45:14.67 - OUTPUT START FOR UTILITY, UTILID = S188328.S188 > DSNU036I 08:45:14.67 - UNABLE TO OPEN DCB FOR DDNAME SY...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow REPAIR CATALOG on indexes to reset version numbers

In Db2 Cloning Tool, index version mismatches cause indexes to be rebuilt on the target rather than using the physical copy. Some of these indexes are very large. Corrective measures would be to drop and recreate the index on the source which woul...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

NodeAgent process suspends CATALOG DCS DATABASE in DB2 CLI

Product: InfoSphere DataStage 11.5 OS: Linux Middleware: DB2 V11.1 When the customer tried to create catalogs with CATALOG DCS DATABASE in DB2 CLI. the command froze. After investigation, the process of NodeAgent causeed the freeze. As a work-...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Making the data items in visualization (columns, rows, length, x-axis, y-axis,...) optional not mandatory

Remove the block on having some items in visualization mandatory, making them more optional and recommended like other BI tools to improve the user experience when creating objects and making them more udnerstandable.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Optim 11.3 Support for MarkLogic data source for both Data Privacy and Data Archiving

Support for MarkLogic data source within Optim 11.3 for Windows
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Not under consideration

Need semi-join capability in BigSQL

In migrating from Hive QL to BigSQL, Sprint has found that their user community used the Hive semi-join function. To minimize the rewriting required, BigSQL support of semi-join is requested.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

EXPLAIN STMTCACHE CACHED_TS(timestamp-value)

Currently, an EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL is the option to externalize the (entire) content of the DSC (dynamic statement cache) into DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE. For several reasons, we're using a DSC "history" table. Periodically, we extract the DSC, a...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild data coming from historical data generated in a DWH by the technique SCD Type 2

Have Built in Cognos functionality to assist in rebuilding data coming from a DWH using various types of SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension, especially: Type 2). End users would greatly benefit from the ability to easily flip between current and histo...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Seccomp configuration and enable SELinux for docker on Local install

Maintaining secure cluster environment by using the CIS benchmark recommendations of enabling Seccomp on docker images. Previous version installs of WSL installed docker from RHEL repo which also installed the SELinux policy for docker. Update sup...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

idsdb0018461

Further to our discussion to PMR: 05530,999,780 we had the impression that feature request idsdb00184614 it will be included in 11.7 xc8 but it looks like there is a code freeze.It is very urgent to have this feature implemented ASAP.
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration