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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Enable DSN1COMP to work on compressed tablespace data

We want DSN1COMP to be able to work with compressed table data. These days we've got an usecase, where we needed to check, if a new compression dictionary will saves us some MB/GB in a nearly completly full tablespace. Because of his size, we were...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Enhance Integrated Synchronization (InSync) to properly handle non-UTS tables when utilities are run against the base tables

InSync's predecessor (Change Data Capture) has never had a problem when utilities such as REORG were performed on non-UTS tables. As we try to convert to InSync, the majority of our replicated tables in IDAA are in legacy simple, non-UTS table spa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Add support for accessing I-SERIES DB2 data from DVM

DVM does not currently support access to I-SERIES DB2 data. We have I-SERIES applications that would benefit from using DVM.
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Hive Connector with a Kerberos authentication

We need an option to connect to a Hive using Kerberos authentication. Previously the IBM offering team offered us to use a "Hive via Execution Engine for Hadoop" connector from IBM but it doesn't fully suit our need and here is why: this "Hive via...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered

"Reorg force all" should kill all existing (active or inactive) threads which belong to the object which would be reorganized

we have many tables which are changed and selected 24 hours a day - 7 days a week. So this tables need more reorgs than other not so much changed tables but it is not possible to make a reorg (force all) because there are Spufi User with autocommi...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Delivered

Scheduled tasks to have optional timezone drop down.

Scheduled tasks to have optional timezone drop down. Currently timezone is where ever QMF EE is deployed on. For example: QMF EE web app is deployed on servers that is on EST. it will run task on EST regardless of timezone you think you are runnin...
over 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow the ability to query the metadata stored from data discovery - or provide canned reports

Our data stewards have to filter through thousands of tables and columns to determine authoritative data that we want to ingest into our Unified Data Fabric we are building in Cloud Object Storage. Having he ability to query output from data disco...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

OOTB Integration API returns only Required attributes in response

When we request records from IBMPM via the integration API (fetch item/items from catalog), by default it only returns the fields that are marked as required in IBMPM. This is because it's returning the same set of fields that are visible in the U...
8 months ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Cognos Dashboard: Support Exasol Database as a Source

Today Exasol is not supported as a data source for Cognos Dashboard. Exasol is our main analytical database and already suppoted in the other Cloud Pak for Data tools. It's critical for us to get it also supported in Cognos Dashboard. Please add...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 1 Delivered

Owner Type option when Binding with a Role

We have attempted to convert our DBA's to utilize Role based security instead of granting direct access to user-specific ID's in order to comply with certain audit standards. The one limitation keeping us from utilizing role based admin security i...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered