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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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Global Correlation ID for VSAM/IAM and DB2 updates made by CICS transaction

It would be good if CDC provides global correlation ID to correlate DB2 and VSAM/IAM updates made by CICS transaction in a unit of work. For example: If CICS txn (TXN1) is updating the FILE1 (VSAM/IAM) and TABLE1 in a same unit of work, we are loo...
3 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Improve user experience when using catalogs

I would like to suggest an improvement in the customization of the presentation of information when the user accesses the Catalogs menu and selects the desired data catalog. It is important that, when viewing data assets, such as schema and table,...
20 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

When (re-)creating dimensions (incl. attributes) CubeSecurity on corresponding }ElementAttributes_ cubes should be NONE and not WRITE (as it is today) by default.

Deny WRITE access on newly created attributes cubes by default, in order to prevent users from entering data/attribute values.
13 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Allow TI function Synchronized() to return immediately in case of conflict

In our application for some (complex) operations, the user asking for it has to be sure that another user is not performing the same operation on the same perimeter. For example when user validates his forecast for BUDGET 2025 for Business Unit ...
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Rise a limit of 36400 packages to rebind

Please consider rising the limit of packages to REBIND from panels. Currently the limit is 36400 packages to rebind. The problem can be observed on panel ADB21K with REBINDALL command when there is mode than 36400 packages listed. We found that th...
9 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted

AVI stage – CENSUS_BLOCK, CENSUS_ID, CENSUS_TRACT, COUNTY_FIPS not available

THR is using AVI Stage to build the process of address verification. The census data information which we are looking for are CENSUS_BLOCK, CENSUS_ID, CENSUS_TRACT, COUNTY_FIPS. We are getting this information with CASS Verification through Altery...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

True (Non-Unique) Display Names

It would be awesome if we could simply set an ATTRIBUTE as the DISPLAYED VALUE in a PAW Visualization on the rows/columns/wherever. There are often instances where you have a dimensional hierarchy where you have a certain level of consolidation (s...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

DB2 12.1 support for rhel8

As the vendor for both database and RHEL OS, I would really expect the customary support for RHEL8 and RHEL9 for db2 LUW 12.1. This is a huge inconvenience for those of us not on 11.5.9. If we need to upgrade we need to go across all of our server...
4 days ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted