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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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Customer needs a new function that can easily compare source and target.

My customer is using IIDR for IMS for z/OS.(all DEDB)They need a new function that can easily compare source DB and target DB.As an alternative, there is a way to compare both unload data, but there are two problems.- Both unloads must be executed...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Support AVRO Format ( binary ) with HDFS Agent

Support AVRO Format ( binary ) with HDFS Agent
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CAM Copy User Security Group Assignment

In the current design of CAM, the administrator can copy a group and it is working fine. However, when we want to copy a user's profile, it became impossible, as there is no visibility for us to know what group the user is belong to. In many occas...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatic deletion of empty SYSDISC datasets

BMC LOAD...DELETEFILES YES SYSDISC YES causes an empty SYSDISC file to be deleted. Also it appears this happens automatically when PARALLEL is used with the IBM utility but only with PARALLEL.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Create Shortcut button in MER Msg EDITOR screen

PBB User expecting to have shortcut button to view the next message instead of user have to quit (return to the queue) then only to select the next message in FTM-MER 1) User excepting Next button after opening the message from Message List page 2...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

create schedules but not reports

To create more fine-grained permissions, so we could grant "Write schedules" but prohibit "Write reports", or something like that
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Unload to support parallelism for LOB Tablespaces

We are trying to unload large LOB tablespaces in a performant manner. Please see PMR 76429 999 866 in relation to this. IBM Unload currently issues misleading messages saying parallelism will be invoked. However this is not the case and the utilit...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add NEWMIRRORLOGPATH option to the restore command

This should be a fairly simple change/addition and prevent the possibilty that the mirrorlogs end up in the old databases mirrorlogpath by misstake or during the time it takes for the administrator to do the change manually, since the change will ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Request 2 license features

Here are two users. A user : bsub -R "rusage[featureA=1:featureB=1]" -Lp defaultB user: bsub -R "rusage[featureA=1:featureB=1]" -Lp short When featureA has 1 free license in default project, and featureB has 1 free license in short project, this j...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

MER Find Message" function"

MER Find Message" function" There are more messages with TTKLC* other than the 5 messages but it shows up the "and more". The user cannot click on the "and more .." to navigate to the next messages. In the "Find Message" function at the Message En...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists