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Allow us to use the profile tables to set the ACCUMACC zparm more granular

At the present time we have ACCUMACC set to 20. We have had to set this to 1 for problem determination purposes. In our active system it causes issues with our SMF jobs when we have done this for even a short time. We would like the ability to use...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Future consideration

OpenLineage Export to Alation

Thia is in continuation to an earlier Idea, https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-67, wherein the OpenLineage export is working only when it is connected to an auto-scanned source but the respective Alation data source catalog does...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Under review

Controller Classic Transfer / Export Structures - make Controller Web Import Specs and Lookups selection specific

Instead of having to import all Controller Web Import Specifications and/or all Web Lookup tables, it would be helpful if you could select specific Import Specifications and Lookup tables. (especially as Transfer/Export Structures is IBM's work ar...
about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Provide a toggle option via the Orchestrate UI to enable security

The current process to enable security for the embedded chat is time taking.
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Request to implement a priority queue for scheduling the MDI/MDE jobs

We request an enhancement to the MDI/MDE jobs schedules to replace the current First-In, First-Out (FIFO) queue with a Priority Queue system. This feature must allow users to define a priority level (e.g., High, Medium, Low) upon job submission an...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

DIS UTIL enhancement for FlashCopy - in COPY as well as in RECOVER

We have converted our copy schedule to FlashCopy. We run 10 jobs in parallel each job have between 500-600 objects in it. The DISPLAY UTILITY does not show the progress of the DFDSS copy. Db2 generates DFDSS commands for 80 datasets, but this is n...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to perform create indexes on a table in parallel

Typically we need to (re-)create multiple indexe’s on a table. Right now this process has to be performed sequentially - index after index - which can take a very considerable time. We would like to see a feature to able to CREATE multiple INDEXes...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Select version to upgrade in PAAS and ability to revert to old version

We were asked by IBM support to upgrade to PAAS 12.5.0 to potentially resolve an issue. We have done so and have now run into MULTIPLE bugs in 12.5.0 that is frustrating the client and developers. There is no ability to select which version to upg...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability to import AD or CAM users in PAW

We have a couple of customer PA local environments where we in Architect add new Users or Groups from Active Directory or Cognos CAM through Security -> Client Groups -> Add New Client or Add New Group. This functionality is currently not av...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Revoke impact report generated regardless of dependencies

Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS has an option to generate revoke impact report. If there is a dependency on authorisation you are trying to revoke which prevents the revoke, it displays a message (since PH65207): Can't revoke EXECUTE on &...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration