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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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Improvement of QREP to allow replication of data generated in the Db2 LOG by the LOAD utility with SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES.

Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario:- Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + Db2 v13 for z/OS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Data input autosaving/submit in PAW websheet without pushing a button

Global configuration ( either at the PASS level or at the websheet level) for activation and deactivation of a direct commit after an end user has inputted data into a websheet like comments or value-data on a leaf level. Currently the user has to...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Improved functionality for tablespace fast pre-allocation

My customer is experiencing huge performance problems due to Tablespace Pre-allocation (DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION).At this time, IOCP Timeout occurs in Db2 and many tossbuffers occur in GPFS.This customer has been struggling with this problem for...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 6 Future consideration

Bring MATLAB interface back for CPLEX

Please bring back the MATLAB interface for CPLEX. We rely heavily on this feature since toolboxes we use are Matlab exclusive.
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 34 Future consideration

IKC usability

It is requested not to display empty ‘custom new property’ in the overview of a catalog customised object (i.e. Assets or Governance Artifact: custom assset, Report, BT, Category etc) Imagine to have the need to manage "objects" that have a lot of...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Audit DB - Report and E-Mail reception

It would be desirable to have a function in the audit DB to find out which report is sent to which e-mail addresses (incl. storage path). Currently this is not possible with the standard audit.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Allow to query and stop an object in one go to avoid STOPP

HSM allows to move DB2 page sets by stopping them and copying them and then starting the page sets again. HSM does this by DIS DB(...) SP(...) USE and a subsequent STO DB(...) SP(...). If in the small timing window between the DIS command and the ...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Expanding Explain feature to do batch and inserting directly in Confluence templates

The customer would like a few additional features added to the Explain feature. First, they would like batch processing, where they can select several COBOL programs and allow them to process them to gather the explanation all at once and the poss...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration
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export data from tables out of a backup image

Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
almost 8 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration