IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Capture FODC when the db2 watchdog not able to start the daemons that died

At present when the db2passwd daemon gets terminated db2 watchdog is supposed to re-instantiate the process. But when its not able to start it for some reason we expect watchdog or the engine by itself should create an FODC and collect all the nec...
7 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable reading NUMBER(1) columns in New Oracle CDC stage as INTEGER rather than BYTE

There is an existing CI in the old system for this; adding it to the Ideas portal for customer visibility. StreamSets documentation explains that we convert Oracle's Number type to SDC data types based on precision and scale, converting NUMBER fie...
3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

The feature of viewing package data sources is not present in Cognos11

The feature of viewing package data sources in package > actions > more is not present in Cognos11. We like this feature to be in Cognos 11
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Give ISAM/tabid when syspurge() fails

We had a purge that was failing for a protracted period and it took a lot of trapping and tracing to figure out why, since the full error details were not being reported. In the interim, performance degraded and we risked running out of space.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Request support for Windows 2025

Add support for Windows 2025
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Under review

Prevent VPSIZE(0) Bufferpool

The idea would be to have a permission or rule in place to prevent an alter bufferpool to VPSIZE(0). As it can cause major problems.
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client (Fukuoka Financial Group) is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Cl...
over 2 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Allow the user to filter using custom fields on the search screen

Custom fields are very useful for adding information to data assets in a structured way that adapts well to the particular structure of companies. Because of this, we believe that being able to filter assets and information by these fields is some...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

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