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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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Provide ability to create a new profile by copying an existing profile.

This would make it easier to create new profiles without having to reenter all of the options. This would be particularly useful for Job profiles where there are many different options to select and values to fill in. Once you have a job profile w...
7 days ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Externalize DDF Alias level statistics into SMF

Currently we do have SMF data for DB2 system level distributed workload but do not have DDF Alias level statistics with in SMF, only available adhoc option is to issue DIS DDF <alias> DETAIL to look at DDF alias level active dbats and connec...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

SQLJ Add support for use of Java Array in IN predicate

We would like to see support of Java type ARRAY for IN-LISTs. The use case would look like: SqljCtx sqljCtx = getSqljCtx(); Array fkpzOfflKtoIdsArray = sqljCtx.getConnection().createArrayOf("TIMESTAMP", fkpzOfflKtoIds); FremdkontoOfflineIterator i...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

INCLUDE directive for lsf.cluster file

Its great to have INCLUDE functionality added in LSF and we're using heavily in our multiple LSF clusters. Its makes it easy to manage many clusters for common config edits and keep the farms compliant. I am logging this RFE to extend this feature...
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
8 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

INTERPRET Function for Packed-decimal Data

We have some old tables with a CHAR column where we store a record formatted by a Cobol Program. It contains a mix of display data and packed-decimal data. To use that data we have to read it in a Cobol program and interpret it using a Cobol copyb...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support Session Scheduler Memory Limits with CGROUP v2

The current Session Scheduler in LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 14 does not support having memory limits when using CGROUP v2. Please enhance it to do so.
8 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Fix CVE-2023-5676 vulnerability in Symphony 7.3.2 Fixpack2 (build 601711) (Support case TS015911658)

Symphony 7.3.2 FP2 (build 601711) got affected from this CVE-2023-5676 due to the dependency of OpenJ9 that is actually vulnerable. (confirmed by IBM Spectrum Symphony Support). It was investigated in IBM support case TS015911658. In our company t...
9 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

Increase limitation of Head file system

Hello Team, Currently we have limitation of head file system and we are sometimes having free space issues and we are manually getting the FODC dumps deleted for freeing up the space. Can we remove the limitation and increase the head file system ...
11 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Under review

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
14 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review