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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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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

DDF Start with TCP/IP should be coordinated between Start Listener and Start DDF

During start of DDF inside DB2, DB2 start the Listener for TCP/IP requests and a small timeframe later the DDF. In this timeframe incoming requests are denied with REASON=00D31032 and follow-on errors. As an bypass we do not start DDF automaticall...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Top/Bottom Filter for Barcharts

Currently, only Explorations can be filtered by TOP/Bottom members (Membercount, Percentage, SUM). When you change to exploration to a - for example - barchart, this information gets lost. It would be a good idea to keep that dynamic filtering fro...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Control Hub Platform - "Get Default Parameters" option not found in Job configuration

We have observed that in the Streamsets On-Prem Control Hub, there is an option called “Get Default Parameters“ available in the job configuration. This feature allows users to revert job parameters to their default values as specified in the pipe...
3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration

CHCCLP to retrieve latency for Db2 iSeries engine

Dear IBM Support , Currently, I use IBM CDC to replicate data from source (Db2 iSeries) to target (Db2 iSeries). Howerver, when I use CHCCLP to retrieve latency, the result does not display the latency. Please help me to an enhancement request (AH...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC capture enhancement for "catch up" mode.

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. In order to bette...
6 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

BACKUP DATABASE VENDOR AZURE

Please extend BACKUP DATABASE to support cloud vendor type of AZURE. Presently, DB2 only supports S3 protocols.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Future consideration

PureScale HADR to non PureScale HADR

Would like to be able to setup HADR support within a PureScale cluster to a non-PureScale cluster. Rob Lemeuix
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 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

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/db2-db2-server-tcpip-port-numbers For Db2 Version 11.5.5 or older, the ports used are 60000 and higher. For example, ports 60006 - 60011 would be ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Future consideration