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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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Fully replication support of Db2 data type XML with IDR Queue Replication especially for the case the Queue message size is limited because of using Shared Queues based on Coupling Facility structures

We replicate a lot of changes of our operational zDb2 data to a Db2 LUW (BLU) via IDR Queue Replication. The Db2 BLU is used as the data base of our datawarehouse processes. The Queue Replication uses Shared Queues which are mapped on Coupling Fac...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Sort order in association grid selector should reflect the visible columns

We noticed when we configure the "Associate" button on an object grid in a task view, the default sort order of the grid results are on System Fields.Name, even if that field is not visible in the grid. IBM support confirmed that this is working a...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

PIVOT/UNPIVOT functions in DB2 for z/OS

Currently, the DB2 for z/OS SQL does not support any functions for PIVOTING / UNPIVOTING data. This results in extremely complex SQL whenever a matrxi/cross tab report is required. Such reports are very common in open systems databases.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to JSON2BSON UDF

With the increasing adoption of Db2 REST, the use of JSON2BSON UDF also increased. The problem with this UDF is that frequent repetitive calls of this UDF will result in -904 "ROUTINE PARAMETER STORAGE" error. We have gone thru recommendations in ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Data audit in IBM SPSS Statitics

In IBM SPSS Modeler, there is very useful node called Data Audit. It gives you quick and very helpful variable review. In IBM SPSS Statistics there is probably no way how to make this output (chart + basic statistics define by Measure for all vari...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Improve existing ZOMBI handling with regards to both SBD and MBD process flows

It will reduce the persistence of ZOMBI jobs in LSF to a shorter time period. Here are the two areas that need improvement. 1) Currently, even though the SBD daemons may be running on a host, a job will remain in ZOMBI status until the SBD is rest...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cloud Systems Monitoring

IBM Cloud Ops and subsequently customers should be notified when outages occur. Specifically, if LDAP goes down or is not running, somebody should be notified and it should be started.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Revise DSNREXX to allocate specific DB2 load libaries

Allow DSNREXX to have an option that allows allocation of various DB2 load libraties from the init or add call
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DKIM

with e-mail spoofing on the rise the use of SPF, DKIM and DMARC are on the raise as Cognos Analytics can send e-mails out to user's it would be nice if Cognos Analytics could be configured to use DKIM with the e-mails so companies can use tighter ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consistent handling for exportModel(), writeMIPStarts() , etc

The handling where methods like e.g. exportModel() and writeMIPStarts() is not consistent and not intuitive. In case no absolute path is specifies, exportModel() always writes the file parallel to the mod-file. Whereas writeMIPStarts(), while star...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration