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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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An AI assistant to transform generated COBOL into readable COBOL

Transform COBOL code generated by a tool such as Pacbase or RPP into code that a COBOL developer could have written.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Restrict access to API Functionality

Update 03/28/2024 Disable API Keys at platform level. - Low effort. - 5.0.x The ability of enabling api keys for certain users. - Medium effort The ability of setting up an expiration date. - High effort Hello, We have raised ticket number TS01362...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Return information about a failed Lock-Escalation to the application

When a Lock-Escalation occurs it is documented by message DSNI031I (Lock Escalation has occurred) in the Db2-Master-Adressspace. But when a Lock-Escalation fails there is no documentation for this, instead it comes to a Timeout or Deadlock from a ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Unload to file should have option that prevents over writing of an existing file

A customer writes some SQL that captures the pre-data to an unload file and then does the updates/deletes etc. If the SQL is successful and inadvertently run again the initial pre-data will be lost.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

DB2_FMP_FODC variable needs to be extended to application traps

Failures in DB2 may result in Trap files, by default written to the directory where DIAGPATH is set, usually $HOME. To avoid disk-full conditions, this can be redirected with db2set variables DB2_FODC and DB2_FMP_FODC for most of the FODC traps. H...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Future consideration

Enhance CDC z/OS to support Db2 z/OS RBA/LRSN values in full length (New JCF: COMMITSEQ/INTENTSEQ)

We plan to migrate existing SQL Replication CCD tables to CDC Live Audit tables. For that we need to identify the exact values for the source RBA/LRSN log-points to keep the original sequence of DML and to identify the COMMIT scope of the transact...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Ability to mask a column by both a data class and a tag

We want the ability to have a data protection rule that uses an "And" clause and a "Tag" and appropriately masks based only on the "AND TAG = " clause. Right now we found that when we tag a column with the data class and a tag, the column only mas...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Begin / End COMMIT instrumentation for DRDA, CICS/IMS

Complex CICS/IMS or DRDA transactions (involving multiple programs with an implicit Commit at the end) are incorrectly presented on the Omegamon Accounting Report/Trace. By design the costs of the tough SYNC (COMMIT) operation are added to the las...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Correct wrong data in IFCID0172 QW0172HQ/QW0172Q1 when package changes occur during waiting/deadlocking

The issue is that 1.- Thread 1 and Thread 2 get locks 2.- Thread 1 changes packages 3.- Thread 1 and 2 deadlock 4.- Thread 1 is chosen as blocker and deadlock processing uses user data from Thread 1's waiter, but the package dependent information ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

git Repository & DataStage

Actually, git integration does only work for projects including Notebooks, but not DataStage flows. It is even worse: when creating project with git integration, it is not longer possible to add DataStage flows AT ALL! Only projects w/o git integr...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration