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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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Implementation of DATATYPE DECFLOAT in the creation of an index in DB2 for z/OS

The customer uses DATATYPE DECFLOAT to represent floating point numbers to a base of 10 instead of the base 2 to avoid rounding errors. On DB2 distributed the DATATYPE DECFLOAT is indexable and everything works as required. Requirement is that DAT...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

[User Interface and Configuration] EGO - CLI - login to egosh without exposing password (RFC4492)

Need help to logging into egosh in script without passing password as a command line argument. Command line arguments are inherently insecure and can be observed by users on a machine from e.g. task manager. We need to figure out how to pass passw...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.2 4 Delivered

To report Total & reserved & used memory graph through rpt_hardware_raw table

We would like to report graphically reserved, used, total memory by LSF cluster from rpt_hardware_raw table. There is MEM_REQ field in rpt_jobmart_raw table & is related to job but that doesn't give picture by LSF cluster.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

RTM: license server name truncated

A license server name longer 45 char which is truncated when I save it in the lic add form. It seems this is due to the server_name filed of the lic_services table limited to 45 char when name field in many others table (like lic_servers) are limi...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Reorg pending after three ALTER TABLE statements is not useful in 24x7 environment

After three ALTER TABLE statements (depending on the clause, but an error can be forced by changing type from VARCHAR to CHAR ) table switches into reorg pending state. This state can only be resolved by an offline reorg.Additional problem is that...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Delivered

CTAS (Create Table As)

Implement "CTAS", i.e. the ability to create and populate a table based on another existing table. Common in other DBMSes (even Netezza!). CREATE TABLE dba1.item_new AS SELECT * FROM dba1.itemandCREATE TABLE dba1.item_new AS SELECT * FROM dba1.ite...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Remove active trace limit of 32

Today there is a limit of 32 active traces within a db2 member. But we have the need to start more..
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Excel 2010 or up support

Symphony only support Excel up to 2007, considering there are new Excel versions, and it's widely used in FSS, the higher version should be supported. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSMK_6.1.1/connect_for_excel/connector_excel_pre...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered

provide IDAA IVPs also as REXX procedures

Customers are preparing the IVPs for IDAA - sample jobs AQTSJI01 and AQTSJI02 (with members AQTSCI01 und AQTSCI02).This requires setup of CLP in USS which is not always present at customers. It can be very time consuming to set this up and issues ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Matrix - Solaris 10 stlport4 requirements for Symphony 7.1

Need 32 & 64 bit stlport 4 client side driver on Solaris 10 update 9 before March 2015
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Delivered