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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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IDAA LOADER - Terminate a...

Today, when we have a problem with a Load execution, we can use the BMC ISPF application to terminate the utility or use the DB2 TERM UTILITY command.When using Loader, there is no way to terminate a utility unless using the HLOMAINT Job .So, we n...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 disconnected System Assessment

At the moment Db2 AI for z/OS needs to be connected to do System Assessment.We've got a couple of Db2 production systems of different customers and our idea is to install Db2 AI for z/OS on one seperated lpar. The main purpose of this installation...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Better problem determination when error message is returned to the job submitter

When running a loader job that fails on authorization the submitter of the job does not get a proper message. The message emitted by the IDAA Loader is "HLOU5715E Unknown error during IDAA validation". This is in par with the famous Microsoft Wind...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Auto-size INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL system parameter and auto-populate SYSIBM.SYSINDEXCONTROL

To avoid manual analysis and reap the benefits of in-memory index structure / FTB. To automatically allocate more than 20MB (when appropriate) for INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL zparm. To identify list of indexes that would benefit from FTB based on actual ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
over 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Not required anymore.

Not required anymore.
over 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add user group and individual profile management

Currently the DB2ZAI use privileges are done by DB2 grants and each features (DCC, SA, SQLOPT) usage can be restricted by TSO ID/RACF group privileges Suggest there should be role and the duty segregation within the db2zAI tools. (such as Administ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement suggestion for Critical Only email escalation under system assessment

Critical warning email escalation should be more descriptive (suggested to include Metric name) Instead of just number of Critical warning. It should be a list list of critical exception description Administrator should have ability to setup the e...
over 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

"snooze" email escalation under System Assessment

Currently customer from RBC setup email escalation based on the Critical alerts under the system assessment for example Subject: Db2ZAI System Assessment for Connection DB2ZAIGCCDB01 Completed with Status of SUCCESS. Critical Exceptions Found. Db2...
over 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IDAA LOADER job with RC=8 due to IDAA load fail

Some of our daily DB2 load Jobs are "DUAL MODE" (DB2 + 4 IDAAs) but we are having issues due to RC=8 when just one IDAA receives error . When the load is sucessful for DB2 and 3 IDAAs but abend for just one IDAA we want to receive at least RC=4 be...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration