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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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Record all the options used on utility invocations

We have the idea to record online History to record all the options used on utility invocations.This feature would be very useful, to better control the execuctions and the history of utilities.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve JDBC’s SQLException Error codes

We have observed that, when we get an SQL Exception caused by different situations related to client-server communication issues, we always get an ErrorCode = 0 (((SQLException)sqle).getErrorCode()) For example, in case we have an open connection ...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Questionnaire and associated parameters

We need to have functionality to associate a ‘Questionnaire’ with a Risk, Control or other object and leverage the results from the ‘questionnaire’ functionality directly into the parameters of these objects (i.e. we are ‘bypassing’ this limitatio...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration

Delegation of workflow tasks

We need to have functionality to delegate workflow tasks to other users and/or invite other users to contribute to specific workflow tasks (e.g. for self-assessment, issue management and other workflow activities)
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Allow replication from Kafka as a source

It would be good to support replications from Kafka as a source to other targets. This idea might sound strange if this were the only replication happening, but this could be part of a "cascading" replication, e.g. if data is replicated from Db2 t...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Increase messaging detail after STOP Db2 to provide shutdown status information.

As Db2 continues to allow more and more capacity in a single subsystem - larger bufferpools, more open datasets, etc - the time to shut down Db2 continues to increase. Operational staff has complained repeatedly that they cannot tell whether Db2 i...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

watsonx.ai to allow the clients to retrain or build their foundational models on IBM HPC (VELA)

Our customer participated in watsonx.ai early adoption program, and has raised critical points required for Enterprise consumption of foundational models. They want to build and retrain the foundational models in watsonx.ai hosted on IBM HPC compu...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

DMC add ability to switch from AM/PM to 24h representation globally in DMC.

Please add 24h time representation to DMC!!! The Graphs produced by DMC are very beautiful yet hard to read with a time line of AM/PM.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration