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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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Message when IFI interface and monitor traces are disabled due to errors

When the IFI abend count reaches some hardcoded number which is not externalized this results in the disabling of all IFI request and MONITOR trace processing. Then when an application tries to use IFI it receives 00E60831 but the msg only goes to...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

flood of console with I/O error messages when Db2 is always tring to allocate/open LOGCOPY1 first for each LOG-READ request

Customer would like to avoid a flood of console with I/O error messages. The test environment and scenario is as follows.environment: - DB2 V11 DATA sharing (We have three MEMBER DB1A, DB2A, DB3A) - Q-Capture(IIDR for DB2 V10.2.1) server is runnin...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Current authorization session variable

We would like to have a session variable that would identify the current authorization in use by a connection. By "current authorization", I would like it to identify the package owner of the package being executed for static sql or dynamic sql us...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

in DB2 v.11 env. question on use of httpgetblobfile

Problem description and business impact customer in z/os v2.2 and db2 v.11 have a question on function httpgetblobfile: the function (db2xml.httpgetblobfile but also db2xml.httpgetclobfile) has in input a varchar with the url and a clob with the h...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Backout also if system errors occours using 'load resume yes backout yes'

Load resume yes backout yes should perform the backout process also when some system error occurs (ie.: space constraints on utility datasets), primarily in case of DISCARDS 1 specification.With this choice the customer wish to prefer the preserva...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - Reduced Dimension Element lists when no data

In the workspace, in order to reduce the lists of dimension elements while navigating, it would be useful to get rid of elements that have no data the all dimension selectors, like in Cognos Insight when this one greys out the elements with no data.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PieceMeal Delete without coding application

During CERT (V12-CERT-2017) it was a desire amongst several customers to get a sort of imbedded COMMIT in the new piecemeal DELETE - when running from TSO attachment.-Alternatively to allow procedural language (SQL PL like) syntax in SPUFI/DSNTEP2...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add varchar(max) and nvarchar(max)

We are frequently moving data between MS-SQL server and Db2. When data are moved from Db2 to MS-SQL there are no issues. But when data are moved from MS-SQL to DB2 we have frequent problems with varchar and nvarchar data types for data types where...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Index artifacts term relationships in global search

At the moment only Assets relationships with terms are returned in the global search. However we have relationships between governance rules, policies, classifications, data classes, reference data with terms that are not returned. We will need th...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

To be able to kill a specific process from a job

Hello, Sometimes, a job is completely stucked due to a specific process. Customer doesn't want to kill the whole job because he is waiting for the result of job. Would it possible to add the ability to kill a specific process from a job without ki...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration