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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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Extend policy and rule enforcement to Analytics Engine

Analytics Engine components such as Hive are an important part of the Data Lake story. Without Hive, external users are unable to query data in IBM Cloud Object Storage. However, Analytics Engine is not integrated with Watson Knowledge Catalog. Th...
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Allow the setting of a global option make LOAD jobs fail if a PRESORT cannot be performed

UET will be withdrawn from support next year and its use needs to be removed. To do this the newly provided support for the PRESORT keyword in the LOAD utility needs to be the same and consistent as the functionality that UET provided for PRESORT....
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support for PDS input files to PRESORT in LOAD

The Utilities Enhancement Tool (UET) provides support for the PRESORT keyword for LOAD. It will sort the input file and pass it to LOAD to perform the LOAD. It will accept the input file as being a PDS and perform a PRESORT. UET will be withdrawn ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include SYSPACKSTMT.STMT_ID in GET DIAGNOSTICS data

The SQL Standard for GET DIAGNOSTICS includes details about the actual statement being diagnosed - COMMAND_ FUNCTION / _CODE and DYNAMIC_FUNCTION / _CODE. The Db2 implementation includes none of these. Making it, effectively, impossible to identif...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Exclude TEMPLATE utility from IFCID 3

As for each call of the TEMPLATE utility an accounting record is written and as we use lots of TEMPLATE utilities, the overall utility accounting records are diluted. So we need the possibility to exclude the SMF data for TEMPLATE utility calls fr...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Additional Option to 'Act...

The command 'activate function level ... ' with and without option TEST checks if a Function Level is eligible for the group. However members that are quiesced or failed etc.. are not included in the check. Please provide an additional option to a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow creating allow/deny list of system calls possible by fenced external routines

This will secure the database further from malicious users trying to break out into the host running managed Db2 services on Cloud. This can be done using:1. seccomp() before spawning the db2fmp process and 2. Making more secure SELinux policies f...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow native support of user-defined collation such as EBCDIC in CREATE DATABASE command

This will allow easy creation of databases on LUW supporting EBCDIC collations which will in-turn allow easy migration for Db2 on z/OS to Db2 LUW. Currently, this is only supported via the user-defined option of sqlecrea() api and a C program has ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

WQ - Delta Lake format support

WQ/BigSQL supports hive style partitioning, but but it does not support delta lake format at the present time. For example, today we can query data stored in parquet files on ADLS. It would be fantastic to extend this to support the new Delta Lake...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

To expose Scoring.status() as REST API

To expose Scoring.status() as REST API
over 1 year ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Not under consideration