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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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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.

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Enable UUID as a column type, and generation of UUIDs

As we are moving towards more microservices on Z, and more interaction with cloud services, where UUIDs are much more used, we see a growing need for saving and generating UUIDs on Z. We therefore propose that UUID be made a column type in DB2. Th...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 10 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Generate BIND Statements for Inadvertently Freed Packages

We are looking for the Log Analysis Tool to have the ability to find packages that have been dropped (which it can do already) and use this information to generate BIND statements to more or less undo the freeing of said packages. This could be se...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Do not display field guidance in "i" Icon for the view in which field is not display even if it is added

Do not display field guidance in "i" Icon for the view in which field is not display even if it is added. If I added field ABC and if it si hidden on the view because of some visibility condition, still its field guidance is display in "i" icon of...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

A tool to copy statistics between environments

A tool to copy statistics between environments, currently this has to be done manually in an unsupported way. This would also allow refreshing statistics on a copy of the environment without needing to refresh the schema e.g . nightly copies. Also...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to Event Agent (aka Studio)

Hi, I have these enhancements points for Event Studio which is now called Event Agent. Points to enhance Event Agent: Ability to assign task name to something different than the inherited name. Ability to see all the selected prompt values without...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Default Selected categories should be displayed while creating MDE job.

Default Selected categories are not displayed in the categories section when we create MDE.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Cognos consuming separated database

It Should be interesting to make Cognos a possibility to consume a copy of the main database so it not conflicts with the openpages application that consumes the same database Therefore, large Cognos reports could not degrade the Openpages applica...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Under review

Allow redirected recovery for catalog objects

I accidentally dropped a tablespace and had to recreate it. I wasn't sure about the table-structure at the time the last FIC was done so I wanted to do a redirected recovery for some catalog tables (e.g. SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS) to be able to recognize ...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Adding Debug capabilities to DataStage NextGen

Customers migrating from the legacy DataStage 11.x are missing the debug capabilities (setting breakpoints and running in debug mode) when moving to DataStage NextGen. DataStage developers are affected by the missing functionality.
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

MER - enable checking line length (number of characters in one line) in fields with free input

In the fields in message in MER, which are free input during entry, there is no check of line length or number of lines. You can write unlimited in one line. There is no entry like in MERVA. Only purely structured fields, i.e. those with options A...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists