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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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[Diagnostic][Debug-ability] - Logs - Improve error messages of Kerberos authentication between SSM and VEMKD (No GUI effort)

Improve Kerberos error messages to provide some detail of why a failure took place.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Status changes for IDAA should be reflected in system log

Status changes for IDAA should be reflected in system log with a message. So we can be alert to take necessary actions. It should not be DSNX881I they need to be unique since detection is critical for this messages.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Version tolerance on the IDAA stored procedures & NPS Code

We find the lack of version tolerance on the IDAA stored procedures (especially on SYSPROC.ACCEL_UPDATE_SOFTWARE) and as well as on the NPS code extremely difficult during migration. We would like to see that fixed as soon as possible. 1) We shoul...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Modeling data in DB2 SMF when acceleration turned on

We have been modeling IDAA data for one of our production DB2 environments while testing the IDAA on our test systems. When we turn modeling on in the production system the modeling data will no longer be generated. Our capacity team would like to...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Collect MVS parameters affecting DB2

Enabling 1MB page sizes in z/OS has a significant performance impact on DB2, but there no way from within DB2 of knowing whether this attribute is on, and to what extent one is benefiting from using this feature.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Additional DB2 MQListener Enhancements

We are about to see a ramp-up in the use of the DB2 MQListener in our production environments serving key application/business channels. We are requesting several enhancements that will improve usability and availability to the business process se...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered
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Backup from RSS or HDR Secondaries using ontape, onunload, onbar, dbexport

In HDR enviroments, being able to backup or export databases from and HDR, HDR read-only, or an RSS secondary server is critical. Programs like ontape, onunload, dbexport, and onbar generate locks on tables during backups and data-exports. This cr...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

SQL-based hint capability

As we all know are not all access paths optimal, sometimes the optimizer makes a wrong assumptions are maybe all necessary stats are not always available. Therefore it would be beneficial to have an SQL-based syntax, e.g. as a common table express...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Request immediate effect change of DBCREATE_PERMISSION parameter without restarting IDS instance.

I appreciated that security feature DBCREATE_PERMISSION parameter was introduced since IDS 10.00. I would like to request to enhance this feature to be dynamic whereby this parameter can be changed and taking immediate effect online with restartin...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

alter tablespace to convert PBG to PBR online

Changing a PBG-tablespace to a PBR one means dropping and recreating the object, involving a number of related tasks such as UNLOAD, LOAD, CHECK asf.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered