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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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Allow more granular control over what SQL will result in Statistics Profiles updates

Unnecessary statistics can increase RUNSTATS collection elapsed and CPU time, sometimes exponentially, and impact BIND/PREPARE performance because the optimizer must read in all available statistics to determine what is and is not useful for each ...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Have a level set in CBPDO

Recently we order DB2 QM V3.3 for new customer installation. The source is about 29GB within lots PTFs in SMPPTFIN. We checked the oldest PTF is GA on 2016. But those older PTFs will be supercede by the later PTFs. Could the lab gen a level set PT...
8 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Fix FLOAT error in Informix HQ

Hello Team, I am seeing following error when I click on UI->System Reports-> SQL with the Most Buffer Activity "Value will not fit in a FLOAT." Error occurs for the following System reports too: SQL with the Most Buffer Activity SQL with the...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

Distributed Transaction

Add stage distributed transaction in palette of IBM Cloud Pack for Data.
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Cleanup user details with bqueues -lr output if they don't have running/done jobs in system

Currently, we can find thousands of entries for all users even though they have ZERO STARTED jobs as listed in bqueues -lr output. For some of larger farms, these entries are close to 7M records and bqueues -lr takes long time to return the data. ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Postgres TEXT data type to VARCHAR at Optim level

Optim version = V11.7.0.1 DB alias = PostgreSQL 11.8 Optim is extracting TEXT data type from postgres database as a LOB data, so unable to proceed with the masking on LOB columns. But even if we defined as TEXT data type at database level, the dat...
8 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 4 Planned for future release

Use Absolute Generation and Version Numbers for DVM GDG Dataset Validation

The Scenario : Currently for GDG Dataset Validation when creating a Virtual Table in DVM Studio, DVM uses the relative gdg name such as HIGH.LEVEL.QUALIFIER (0) ) rather than using the absolute gdg name such as HIGH.LEVEL.QUALIFIER .G0001V00 . Sec...
8 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add capability of using GEN parameters in change management batch interface procedure (GOCCM)

We had below requirement from the user: We have an existing column in an existing table that we are adding a new RI to a new domain table. If we issue the compare normally using object comparison tool, we get both the table create DDL and the new ...
9 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add filter function into HostFactory view

There is no filter or seach function on HostFactory view. There are more than 1000 instance and 200 requests created every day. It is very inconvenience to find right host or request
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Add the feature for user behavior monitoring and statistics

From customers' feedback, it is expected to have a feature to understand the functions users using for operation and performance management. Therefore, a user behavior tracking function and statistics, like Google Analytics, will be helpful.
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release