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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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Need for multiple database schemas

PMR TS000125312 Starting with MDM v11.0 the installation process does not support different database schema's anymore, which would isolate the MDM Configuration and Management Database tables from the MDM Server database tables.This was supported ...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Removing must-have field specification list in case of UNLOAD SPANNED YES restriction

We propose to remove the Db2 UNLOAD Utility restriction, that the UNLOAD statement must include a field specification list thatspecifies all LOB and XML data at the end of the record, if SPANNED YES is specified.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ssched jobs missing task information to calculate job run time

We graph job run time from the data in Elasticsearch provided from LSF Explorer. ssched jobs do not contain enough information to calculate job run time. We believe task jobs should contain the same data as regular LSF jobs
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

CDC support for replication to SQL Server 2017 on Linux

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data to SQL Server. We would like to move SQL Server to Linux but CDC only supports SQL Server on Windows. CDC should support replicating data to SQL Server 2017 on Linux.
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

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

How to integrate with Firebase Auth service and OpenAPI

I'm stuck on this process. I have to integrate with Firebase Auth Email/Password but algo other third party auth providers like Google or Apple, but I have those under Firebase Auth umbrella.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Set DB2 ZPARMs TSQTY and IXQTY to -1

Please would it be possible to set the DB2 for z/OS ZPARMs, TSQTY and IXQTY, to -1? Virtually all of our tablespaces and indexspaces are created with a PRIQTY and SECQTY of -1. It would be really useful to set the default values for TSQTY and IXQ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Restrict Custom SQL in Report Authoring to specific datasource

We have a couple of datasources which all are modelled in a framework manager package or a data module. So the users can only use the package or datamodule but not the datasource itself. For some datasources we don't want to model or provide a dat...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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

Unable to edit Combined Filter from show filter option available in the Cognos 11.0.10 viewer

Not able to edit the Combined fitlers when we run the report from the Cognos 11.0.10 Viewer even though we specify the option 'Can be Changed in the Viewer' for the combined filter.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration