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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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Update statistics profile from SYSIBM.SYSFEEDBACK by demand.

We are running under DB2 v12 level 501 Data Sharing 17-way and he is using statistics feedback with profile, but since it is an autonomic process for all objects there are some package access path becoming worst after run utilities with RUNSTATS U...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Encrypted column support being deprecated, what else is available?

With DB2 LUW 11.1 the encrypt and decrypt, decrypt_char, decrypt_bin, etc functions are being deprecated. We already have all of the data encrypted on the disk with the disk subsystem so using an encrypted database does me no good. I need to be ab...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

The dmshowlogdependency command must correctly return the status of archived_log are being managed with Oracle ASM

dmshowlogdependency does not work correctly whan archived_log are being managed with Oracle ASM Instead state of the archived_log, we receive unknown.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Increase maximum numbers of columns in an index key from 64 to 120

Db2 has the lowest limit of allowed index columns compared to the competitors.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Account Structure Reports - Analyze

We want to have in the Account Structure Reports, when selecting a specific account, also the linked structure code, right now you only can see the link type and the name of the linked structure.We would like the 'Link Type' included on the Accoun...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Re-build synopsis statistics in BLU

Provide a function to rebuild the synopsis table metadata online/offline to improve query performance.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Not under consideration

Need dead connection timeout parameter

The Cisco Call Manager team was recently testing LOGINTIMEOUT settings under various conditions. This testing led CUCM to ask IBM how to control the time out once the connection has been established but then the target is suddenly no longer reacha...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IBM DataStage Flow Designer REST API - Multiple compile jobs feature

We are looking for a REST API call that perform multiple compile jobs feature (the same feature available into Datastage Designer Client).In the doc (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.7.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.ds.fd.doc/topics/...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DB2 global health monitoring to include "sick DB2" scenario

Enhance DB2 global health monitoring to include "sick DB2" scenario encountered in PMR 34910,082,000. In that particular case, DDF work continued routing to the sick member, instead of to only healthy members, and our customers were severely impac...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Marking range partitions in a table as readonly

Need feature at range-partition level granularity to mark it read-only so that no update/insert/delete can be performed on a particular range-partition. And by default (when not marked as readonly) all partitions carries table level permissions.Pe...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration