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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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Modify Recovery for COPY YES indexes

at the moment any SYSCOPY (and SYSLGRNX) entries for COPY YES indexes are deleted based on the corresponding action taken on the Tablespace (or partition). The strategy to keep the image copies and SYSCOPY related information for tablespace can be...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

MSK is looking for a native connector for Databricks on AWS.

We already have for Azure. We should have a native connector for AWS to avoid multi-step load/registration via S3 connector. More customers will be asking beyond MSK.
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Customer is using Nexus IQ to scan SW images for potential CVEs before the SW is approved for installation. Customer is asking if IBM can use this tool internally to reduces the risk of sending them images with CVEs.

This is useful to proactively identity CVEs so that we can document and set the expectations with the customer when we deliver the SW to them.
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Effective r15s/r1m/r15m values for job reservations

When using run queue length indices in rusage strings, there should be an option to have the value divided by ncpus. Since in the "total load used for scheduling" the r15s/r1m/r15m are taken from lsload -E and divided by the specific ncpus for tha...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

When adding a collaborator (user) to a category, the "role" column is too narrow - make it broader by default, or allow users to widen it with a mouse

Our role names are sometimes long, and now the dropdown list truncates the names and user is left guessing what to choose. See attached picture. I know they can use the search to narrow down the options... but there is lots of unused space on this...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Optimizer related catalog tables to be temporal

I am aware that a few more tables in the Db2 catalog will be made temporal. This idea is to make ALL catalog tables that the optimizer uses to be temporal. This will enable the user community and also Db2 zAI to extract the statistics that were in...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Availability of DROP SYSTEM PERIOD for System temporal tables.

When a table is defined as a system temporal and the changes need to be reverted for any specific reason - A drop of system period would be needed. This functionality is available in Db2 LUW. Without this, the table has to be dropped and recreated.
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

MCI status request to handle FLI buffer over flow.

If FLI buffer is full , MCI status request should reply as MCI is down.
2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Remove the limit on the number of secondary IDs

The documentation states: If RACF is active and the “list of groups” option is active, the routine sets the list of Db2 secondary IDs to the list of group names to which the RACF user ID is connected. The maximum number of groups is 1012. Since RA...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Default view in Workspace

Currently there is no option to create a view in Workbenck without data as it is available in Architect. If you try to create a new in Workbench it consumes a lot memory. here is link to the ticket https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500Ke000002f...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration