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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Enable RENAME TABLE on tables with triggers

SAP is working on enable the Zero Downtime solution (ZDO), which uses RENAME TABLE to switch between old and new table definitions, also for SAP systems that use a sidecar (SAP SLT - System Landscape Transformation). For SLT, SAP defines triggers ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

One report should connect to multiple servers

As in TM1 Perspectives today, one report can connect to multiple servers. This is a requirement as we have multiple situations in which we DO NOT move data across servers. Instead, we create a report that allows users to see data across multiple s...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add Exasol to the supported Databases

Currently IBM Modeler does not support Exasol as Database. But we are able to connect the Database with an native ODBC-driver. Given the case we are forced to use Exasol instead of Oracle-DB, we will loose a lot of Performance. Exasol tried to fix...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Editing a job: showing job name on all "Edit job" screens

It would be nice to show the job name on every "Edit job" screen. Currently, the job name is shown on the 1st and 3rd screens (Define and Finish) but not on the 2nd screen (Select databases).
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

PAW User and Group Export

Administration user export should contain those elements cloumns what we need for import as well. The first name and last name aren't in the export, but it's in the paw system. When we would like to change the user or delete, we need to fill it ma...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

TM1Server Support SSL protocol for TLS 1.3

Support for TLS 1.3 is a need in 2023. It's something like the Windows server 2019 support for PAW arrived in 2022. Because the security vulnerabilities like log4j and other big media fuss the companies started to search for any hardening option. ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Gateway Server should be able to process batches concurrently.

The best TPS we got in gateway server was 150. Our largest file from a customer has around 600k transactions. With the current throughput from Gateway server it woulld take around 1 hour and 7 minutes to ingest those payments. As a result, we woul...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Future consideration

Add support to update "Last Login Time" of Linux OS for Db2 LUW

Db2 LUW on Linux OS only use auth and password module of PAM to validate and change password, but it didn't record the "Last Login Time" for the users on the Linux OS, so we don't know if the users are actually using the Db2 for data query. And th...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Sequence Number management in a replicated DB2 system

Today sequence numbering in a DB2 subsystem that is being replicated to a secondary site needs to be managed outside of the replication support manually by the customer. Guidance has been given to use odd/even numbering on one side and the other. ...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Support

Customer would like the DB2 Unload and Load Utilities to support Partition by Growth (PBG) tablespaces.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration