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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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Zparm to specify maximum amount of bufferpool storage

Please provide a Zparm to specify the maximum amount of bufferpool storage DB2 may aquire for all of the bufferpools.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Reduce latch content when we use nested SPs/UDFs

We faced a big problem with latch contention in our environment due to nested SPs and UDF in 3 levels, so it did not make sense for us, because of that we opened the IBM case to treat this issue.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Workflow Enhancement -- Current Quarter and Year Function

I commonly bump into needing to fill in a drop down value with current year or quarter on a stage transition. I am request the ability for have a [$Current_Year] or [$Current_Quarter] function rather than need to develop a simple trigger to push t...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Allow Functions / Expressions to be used with multi row insert

Please allow expressions and or functions to be used within a multi row insert statement. I have an application inserting 1000 rows via multi row insert and the table has the POINTS columns which needs to be populated using the function ST_POINT. ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Module Table Repoint

We had some tables moved from one schema to another I couldn't repoint nicely within the native Analytics Data Module compared with what we could with Legacy Framework. I was able to relink the old schema to the new but since we were already using...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Informix 4gl based Datablades

I would like the ability to create database/SPL's using Informix 4GL syntax and features. I know forms and such wouldn't work but I could then leverage legacy into efficient data retrieval processes for for Java and Typescript to access
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

DB2 must not abend RC00F3040A when allied address spaces goes on end-of-memory in must complete operations or holding latch

In case of an allied address space going on end-of-memory with its agents are in must complete operation or still holding any latch, DB2 subsystem must be able to handle this situation keeping the data integrity not abending 04F RC00F3040A.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Non-root Installation

Currently installation as non-root user is not possible. One of the first checks during installation is whether the logged in user is root.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Restrict databases in select database to log on to

We intend to use Cognos Controller in a cloud environment where internal but also external users (customers) have access to. Currently, when a user launch Cognos Controller client, they will see all cognos controller databases in the "select datab...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration