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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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DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Not under consideration

FL LEVEL support

In Db2 12 the Functional Level is currently *not* externalized in various places where it most definitely should be. Notably the PLAN_TABLE, IFCID 316 and IFCID 401. If you are attempting tuning you *must* know under which FL level the SQL in ques...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve AOT backup performance

We're using IDAA loader V 2.1 to run backups for very huge AOTs. When IDAA loader takes a backup from an IDAA AOT it uses SQL multirow fetch to transfer the data from IDAA into a z/OS sequential file. This may work fine for small AOTs. But in our ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

A process should be able to reference subset in CellGet as a virtual consolidation

It would provide exceptional advantage to be able to reference a subset name in a CellGet function as a virtual consolidation (much in the same way as PAFE creating virtual roll ups). Today in areas such as allocation models that require a total v...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Conditional format Icon Set to include Trend Icons

Its nice to have up, down and neutral (i.e. directional arrows) icon set in conditional format styling or should provide option to customize.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Full Column Match and I1 Access on SQL with Correlated Sub-Queries Containing Column Expressions and Supporting IoE

Some queries with column expressions - DATE(A1.EFCTV_TS) <= DATE('04/05/2020') for example, and an Index on Expression to support the expression are achieving I1 access while others are not. It appears this is because of how the query is curren...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

This would provide the requestor who wants to do a one stop shopping when looking for a state such as Advisory Reorg of all the tablespaces in that state.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Enable 2-Factor Authentication for Remote DB2 LUW Connections

Provide an option within DB2 LUW to require 2-factor authentication using a password composed of a personal PIN plus a token code, provided by a vendor such as RSA.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Remove an alias from a subset

The TI function SubsetAliasSet can be very useful. But what if we want to remove the alias from the subset and just return principal names ? Is this function/possibility missing ? Can't we reuse the last argument in SubsetAliasSet, supply an empty...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Provisioning Environment for PA on Cloud

We need a mechanism to enable user provisioning that does not rely on a single primary environment, as we have multiple user communities within our organization who should not have access to the other production environments. Additionally, we requ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration