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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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Allow BIND EXPLAIN(ONLY) use virtual indexes

It would be very helpful if Db2 allowed (optionally) to use virtual indexes when BIND with EXPLAIN(ONLY) is performed. This can be an additional BIND parameter on whether or not use virtual indexes. This option will eliminate/reduce a need in thir...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Target to Google BigQuery

Customers are planning to deploy the Data Science Sandbox, Analytic platform on Google Cloud Platform, hence BigQuery as analytic engine. But they are facing challenges to replicate data from on premises database, including DB2, Oracle, .... to ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Change DSNTINST CLIST to allow temporary TSO/E EDIT datasets 'userid.editutil%' allocated on non-EVA volumes

Currently DSNTINST clist abends when using TSO/E EDIT macro that is unable to use temp datasets on EAV volumes.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SEARCH stage in JOB DFD

Create a SEARCH by stage name Datastage in job in the DFD application. In order to facilitate the finding of the stages in DFD in large jobs.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic PDF Secure Password

Customers want to leverage the PDF Secure Password functionality but want the password abstracted away to stored in a database rather than hardcoded in the Cognos job or schedule.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

LSF Smart Memory Limit & Docker integration

Enabling the Smart Memory Limit conflicts with the Docker integration settings - in that, you cannot have both enabled at the same time. We believe the offending (Docker) config line is:LSB_RESOURCE_ENFORCE="cpu memory"
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Graphs and visualizations, trends, automatically display zero point data

When trending data (for example sales or counts per month) with a line graph, CA omits months from the trend graph that do not have sales or counts. This does not represent the trend correctly since it is important that there were no sales or coun...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

IDAA CDC password process fails audit

When configuring the Incremental Updates via the configuration console, a human being must know and see the password for the configuration console.In addition to change the configuration console password a human being must navigate thru the panels...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

New DSNACCOX tablespace reorg threshold

Stored procedure DSNACCOX has thresholds for tablespace unclustered inserts (RRTUnclustInsPct) and page splits from updates (RRTIndRefLimit). These both cause fragmentation. However, there is no threshold for the sum of these two, even though many...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

When an archive file is deleted through Optim, the corresponding XML file should also be deleted.

This will prevent clients from having to manually delete files. This is being raised on behalf of case TS006385839.
almost 3 years ago in Optim 1 Future consideration