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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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Need IDAA on z to support dynamic routing

We need the IDAA on z LPAR to have the ability to support dynamic routing. When connecting to z/OS LPARs on the same CEC using Hipersockets and OSA cards, IDAA is unable to determine the proper route to send data back to z/OS.
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Command to resolve in-place alters

Have a command "UPGRADE_IPA" which can be run against a table/fragment to resolve in-place alters. This should have an online option which utilizes small transactions.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Add Upcoming Maintenance Window Summary to Main Product Panel

It would be very helpful to users of both the Db2 Automation Tool and the new Db2 Autonomics Expert products if the main panel of each product was enhanced to display the next scheduled maintenance window to be executed and number of actions in th...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Provide an easier method to bulk delete actions from a maintenance window

In the course of normal testing/usage of the autonomics functionality of the Db2 Automation Tool or the new Db2 Automation Expert, there are times when too many actions have been added to a maintenance window, and the user needs/wants to prune man...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow a Maintenance Window execution to be suspended/cancelled

There are situations that occasionally arise where the execution of a maintenance window needs to be suspended/cancelled. Examples of this are 1) when performing testing or debugging of a maintenance window, 2) when the execution of a maintenance ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add filter tree element for time series breaking year, month (string), days, time...

When building a dashboard, it's a common requirement to filter time in group blocks, just like in MS Excel (example attached). This feature do not exists in cognos dashbord for filtering, although there's something similar in the table view widget...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Azure Blob support with EntraID

General Motors leveraging DataStage have an increasing number of their users moving their applications from on-premises to Azure. With that strategic move, GM needs support for connecting to Azure Blob Storage for their DataStage ETL / ELT jobs. M...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Report functionality for annual review of users within projects that are within ldap groups ou=Datastage

I have attached the below steps it takes for me to get a file of users from a certain project within datastage. I'd love it if there was a report feature to grab these details without all the clicks and file saving. Please look over the document a...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

SAS ODBC Connectivity with DataStage

Need capability to use SAS ODBC connection with Data Stage.
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Generate schema from SQL statement

In DB2 Connector stage it should be possible to generate the schema based on the (handcoded) Select statement. It could be an additional option of the Tools Button ("Generate schema/columns").
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration