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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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NOT NULL limitation violation of VARCHAR2 in case federated SELECT ''(empty charactor) from Oracle compati Db2 to Native Db2

[Situation]There is a federated system between VARCHAR2 compatibility off w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined table (actual source table) and VARCHAR2 compatibility on w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined nick name (federated) table.[Current de...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Truncate table partiton

1. many customers expect to truncate a table partition without first detach and then drop, and finaly add a new partition with the same definition as the detached partition, because they may design their range partition as "Jan, Feb, ... Dec" with...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

secure Report output using Azure Information Protection API

Because of the new General Data Protection Regulation we would like to be able to select an option to secure all Cognos 11 report outputs so that even when the downloaded output files (excel, pdf,..) are distributed to other people (via mail, usb,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

log parameters and native query earlier

When my users run reports that run all day or repeatedly experience report failures, I want to be able to help them. In Cognos Administration, I enabled parameter logging by adding the custom setting RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG = true and enabled native q...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Federated functionality across Hybrid Clouds for all Watson Knowledge Catalog capabilities (data governance, data quality, self-serve, data lineage, ...)

General Motors has a scenario which I believe is common and representative to many customers. They have majority of their data currently on prem and they have installed and deployed WKC on-prem. However, they are aggressively moving to the cloud (...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CHECK DATA utility: 1) to avoid SCANTAB and SORT when “SINGLE PARTITION IS SPECIFIED”; 2) to add PART range and parallelism option.

Currently Db2 does not provide either a parallelism option or PART range option for running CHECK DATA utility. Instead, as of Db2 V12, only ‘PART integer’ option is provided that repeating TABLESPACE database-name.table-space-name PART integer st...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow preemption of shared gpu jobs (j_exclusive=no) by higher priority job queues.

We need the LSF support for preemption of shared gpu jobs. Currently GPU preemption is supported only for jobs in mode j_exclusive=yes This is a very big problem as we have a significant waste of gpu memory resource. because if a lower priority jo...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Driver Package Trace requires Local Admin Right

Can you please do an enhancement so that IBM Data Server Driver Package does not require a Local Admin Access to take the trace, just like DB2 Connect before?This is such a pain to have the Local Admin access granted these days. JPMorgan Chase and...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Display MSAS Measures folder correctly in list of measures when displayed in Cognos applications

MSAS \ SASS cube Measures folder is displayed in the middle of the list of Measures when the cube is opened in Cognos applications and looks strange, intuitive and should not be ordered this way.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Backup and Log Archive into private Clouds ownCloud/Nextcloud

Backup and Log Archive into a Cloud Storage
about 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration