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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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TRY_CAST for DB2 LUW (CAST without error)

"New" scalar-function TRY_CASTReturns a value cast to the specified data type if the cast succeeds; otherwise, returns null.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Delay Statistics: add read cache hit and split lock/latch delays

Make it easier to track lock vs latch delays at statement level. Identify applications that could benefit from zhyperlink enablement.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

add commit/rollback counter ( to operational summaries and Interval Selection )

This has been missed for a long time when comparing to our previous stmt monitoring solution. Easy access to tracking of commit/rollback activity.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

new optkey “product id”

Add optkey to collect QWHDPRID info to track activity at the various driver levels
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

new optkey ”requester location”

We need an optkey option that will always contain the ip-address for distributed SQL
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for UR requested with column organized tables

Actually we're preparing a new Warehouse on DB2 BLU 11.5.5 on AIX using column organized tables. In an early technical examination we found, that concurrent access under isolation level UR ( reporting application ) and updating the same rows will ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Expected FTM-MER NOT to split bank/location or Prefix/Suffix

Expected FTM-MER NOT to split bank/location or Prefix/Suffix. Field 22 - for MT305 / MT600 Field 22C - for MT300, MT320 For example, current MERVA: Party Ref Party PBBEK0 0175 PBBEPX FTM-MER: Party Prefix PBBE Party Suffix K0 Ref 0175 Party Prefix...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

TXT as report output

We do have CSV that works as TXT. However, one has to go through scripting renaming etc to accomplish the same. It will be very helpful to add a report option to create output type as .TXT
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

TCR should automatically choose Debit or Credit Adjustment Type is the ADJ CODE can only be a DEBIT or CREDIT

When in TCR you must choose Debit or Credit Transaction type when Inserting an Adjustment. Some Adjustment are DEBIT only or CREDIT only so why does the USER need to select it should be pre-filled with the correct Transaction Type.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

Ability to assign a default tab to open when logging into Web Applications

Currently, when users log into the Web Applications (Contributor applications). the system always opens the tab/worksheet that the user had accessed last during their previous session. This behavior causes significant delays for users, because typ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration