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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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No Column Information shown when viewing Indexes

When exploring Indexes, when an Index is selected, It shows a great many things about the Index, except it does not show the Columns that make up that index. I have went to different views (Dependencies, Alter) but the Columns that make up the ind...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Define Default Filters with same method used for "public filters" or "my filters"

When you define a “default filter” in the grid view of an object type, it is now only possible to select criteria based on “enumerated field”. We want to define "default filters" on the grid view in the same way we define "public filters" or "my f...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Cloud PA Workspace Display Bad Connection message

We have users at home (even at work from time to time) with bad internet connections and network issues. When using PAW the user just experiences slow set select, view refresh, page navigation etc etc... But this is seen as a product issue initial...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CM should support majority-vote failover arbitration as an alternative to priority-based

Currently, the Informix Connection Manager handles failover arbitration on the basis of a priority setting in the ${CMCONFIG} file. This has the effect of making a single CM the judge, jury and executioner when it comes to failover events. And it ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

JDBC driver shouldn't require SSLCONNECTION to be set when SQLHOSTS is used

Currently, the Informix JDBC driver requires SSLCONNECTION=true for connection strings that involve a TLS database listener. But when SQLH_TYPE and SQLH_FILE are set, the sqlhosts file already contains this information in the protocol field; it th...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Add a STOP DB2 mode that cancels connected threads, but not internal processes.

We have struggled with getting a "clean" shutdown of Db2 for years. If we try to use STOP DB2 MODE(QUIESCE), Db2 will not stop. Persistent threads from STCs such as CICS regions, WAS Z servants, and ARS CMOD servers do not "end", so they never all...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add data format properties from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule

Add data format properties from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement DB2 Connector Stage for Clientuser attributes

An extension is required in the <DB2 Connector Stage> GUI so that the default parameters for Client userid Client Wrkstnname Client applname Client Acctng that are transferred to the Db2 WLM can be overwritten on a customer-specific basis. T...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Enable use of encrypted passwords to test connections to databases in the DVM JGate Server interface

A successful “Test Connection” must be completed to “Add new relational data source name and connection parameters” using the DVM JDBC Gateway Server interface. To perform the “Test Connection” a valid userid and password with access to the data s...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Ability to delete objects from an instance & application

Objects can be decommissioned when they become redundant, and so being able to delete indexes/tables/databases etc from instances and applications needs to be supported by DOE.
5 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 2 Future consideration