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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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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

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 ...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

V15 sqlca structure to report BIGSERIAL & SERIAL8 value assigned by INSERT

In versions of the engine prior to v15.0 & CSDK library versions prior to v15.0, the SQLCA structure fields were int4 and could not hold the values returned from inserting to a BIGSERIAL or SERIAL8 column requiring a separate call to the DBINF...
8 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Retrieve IDAA trace data in background

In Admin Tool you can retrieve trace data for the accelerator using Z;AC and then line command TR. We would prefer to do that using Admin Tool instead of Data Studio. But there is a problem. The process run in foreground mode so the ISPF session i...
12 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

suspend and resume sessions under workload API

Currently we can only do with with either command line tool or admin API. Can we add this to all language specific workload APIs We have receive feedbacks from client this will be a good to have feature directly from the C#, C++ and Java API.
4 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Rest API to Close and Open Hosts

currently we only have get methods for host. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=SSZUMP_7.3.2/api/rest/ego/v1/api_reference/ego.htm can we expose host close ( with or without reclaim) and open under Rest API?
4 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

XTREAM needs DMSHOWLOGDEPENDENCY

Before archiving the logs using the dmshowlogdependency tool to determine is it ok to archive the logs if idr-cdc is completed with the logs are is it still required. We need this urgently for the client NTRS
4 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Increase the Max Index Size Allowed

This would allow the system to continue scaling without having to design a new process utilizing the existing indexes.
4 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

UNLOAD SYSPUNCHONLY or UNLOAD NOSYSREC

We are having many developers that need only the SYSPUNCH produced by UNLOAD but not the SYSREC. Having this option available either via SYSPUNCHONLY or NOSYSREC parameter will allow them to get quickly what they need without unloading of data whi...
5 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Submitted

Increase window size when searching for data asset

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted