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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Clear is very dangerous in PAw

In Paw the main menu Clear is too easy to set off by mistake. It is already in the data spreading menu and should only be accessed from there, not in the first menu right click.In addition, it gives no warning that you are clearing data. Finally, ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Support for common table expression (CTE)

Support for common table expression (CTE)
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

PA Command

SQL PA community would like to see a group attach name to be passed from QM to SQL PA when the PA command is used in the data sharing view.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhanced PDF Table handling

Many customer documents contain complex tables within PDFs. WDS can currently look into the tables, but often results in several cells being concatenated rendering the text unusable. Ultimately, it would be useful to also add the context of a cell...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Support LOB data types for DB2 BLU

DB2 BLU still doesn't support LOB related data types. Some existing databases in DB2 or other RDBMS, such as Oracle, need to be migrated to DB2 BLU and contain some tables with LOB data types. Without LOB data types support for DB2 BLU, they have ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Data Types 0 Delivered

Dynamic Statement Cache should have information from the field ClientInfo

We use JPA to generate Dynamic SQL in Db2 z/OS. The application ID i sent in the field ClientInfo which helps us to identify the processing. SMF records, Omegamon, Query Monitor and other products contain this information, but not the Dynamic Stat...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

The column length is too short in some Omegamon tables

We use JPA to generate Dynamic SQL in Db2 z/OS. The application ID i sent in the field ClientInfo which helps us to identify the processing. The application ID is often quite long. Some Omegamon tables have columns that contain data from ClientInf...
over 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Detect corrupted pointers in the free chain and avoid referencing them

We are currently using a USERMOD which detects corrupted pointers in the free chain before referencing them and, if detected, automatically truncates the free chain to avoid referencing bad addresses. If this can be generalized and implemented wit...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Resolution of Indoubt threads on Target after cloning

Hello IBM, The current version of Db2 Cloning Tool v3.2 does not support the automatic resolution of INDOUBT threads on Target if the cloning had happened when there were inflight transactions on Source. This causes the Target subsystem start to f...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enable DataManager to work properly when LSF usermapping is in place

When jobs were submitted with -data option and an account mapping is existing between the submission and execution cluster (MC) DM is not able to retrieve the data correctly.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Delivered