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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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Message when IFI interface and monitor traces are disabled due to errors

When the IFI abend count reaches some hardcoded number which is not externalized this results in the disabling of all IFI request and MONITOR trace processing. Then when an application tries to use IFI it receives 00E60831 but the msg only goes to...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

flood of console with I/O error messages when Db2 is always tring to allocate/open LOGCOPY1 first for each LOG-READ request

Customer would like to avoid a flood of console with I/O error messages. The test environment and scenario is as follows.environment: - DB2 V11 DATA sharing (We have three MEMBER DB1A, DB2A, DB3A) - Q-Capture(IIDR for DB2 V10.2.1) server is runnin...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Current authorization session variable

We would like to have a session variable that would identify the current authorization in use by a connection. By "current authorization", I would like it to identify the package owner of the package being executed for static sql or dynamic sql us...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

in DB2 v.11 env. question on use of httpgetblobfile

Problem description and business impact customer in z/os v2.2 and db2 v.11 have a question on function httpgetblobfile: the function (db2xml.httpgetblobfile but also db2xml.httpgetclobfile) has in input a varchar with the url and a clob with the h...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Backout also if system errors occours using 'load resume yes backout yes'

Load resume yes backout yes should perform the backout process also when some system error occurs (ie.: space constraints on utility datasets), primarily in case of DISCARDS 1 specification.With this choice the customer wish to prefer the preserva...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SpSS modeler Cognos node multiline text in a single cell

A customer of ours uses a Cognos node in SPSS Modeler 18 to access data in Cognos 10. The returned data contains carriage returns/Line Feed character. This results in Cognos that the text being shown as multiline. Getting this data into SPSS model...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback(RIMS)

We have an official request from executive management ((John Mikkelsen) for DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback. Eric Egdorf DB2 LUW Support Verizon Business 719-535-4289 Verizon recently had an outage that they feel coul...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Forward Repair Screen Sort Options

We are looking to have the Forward Repair monitoring screen to be sorted in Date Order so we can easily locate the processing day while viewing the screen. See attached.
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Future consideration

Make changes in the Informix backup process using onbar

Hi,i am using onbar utility to take backup of 4TB database using 12 threads and it took 8-9 hours for complete 0 level . i feel IBM needs to make changes in the Informix backup process. Whenever backup of a dbspace is in progress and if that dbspa...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

To be able to kill a specific process from a job

Hello, Sometimes, a job is completely stucked due to a specific process. Customer doesn't want to kill the whole job because he is waiting for the result of job. Would it possible to add the ability to kill a specific process from a job without ki...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration