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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Do not Add the Planning Analytics COM Addin to MS Word

When we install Planning Analytics for Excel, 2 Excel Addin and 1 COM addin are added to Excel However the COM Addin "IBM Framework for Office" is also added to Word Users are facing various problems in Word because of this Addin. Performance issu...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Latency Threshold Setting by Duration in ASNMON

Transaction volume is different between business time and non-business time. Different threshold should be set for QCAPTURE_LATENCY, QAPPLY_EELATENCY, QAPPLY_LATENCY, e.g. 08:00 - 21:59, 22:00-07:59, etc.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Cross-Invalidation due to pcloset/p-lock negotiation avoidance

Problem Statement / Pain points : Whenever there is no R/W activity and PCLOSET threshold is reached, pagesets SWITCH OUT of GBP dependency and the pages in our Bufferpools are cross-invalidated . Thereafter when R/W starts again, pagesets SWITCH ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Integration between PA und CA must be possible

Clients ALWAYS are completely confused offering two UIs to them: PA with PA Workspace and CA. We need to have integration of MINIMUM this: it must be possible to integrate CA-dashboards (as widgets) into PAW and it has to be possible to integrate ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Mirror LUW Db2 history file

The RFE is to improve database integrity, backup and recovery. Db2 has a "history file" that tracks things such as backups, rollforward, log archive, etc. The history file exists in the database path (DBPATH) directory. There are two history files...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

402 VLDB - DB2 Zparm with Variable Options

DB2 Zparm with Variable Options We have a large number of DB2's to maintain.Most of the DB2's run with the same Zparm values except for the following:-Catalog HLQ, IRLM name, ARC HLQ, Member ID, Data sharing detail and DDF detail. If these values ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

db2val should allow to receive credencial as parameters

The db2val command cannot check databases when using a external security plugin like Centrify. In this case, this command should allow to specify the user and password to connect to a database.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – After selecting ‘Continue and Close’ on workflow actions, display Home Page rather than last opened tab

When a user wants to complete a workflow action and close the form, they did not expect the screen to open up one of the previously open tabs. They would much prefer it to show the HomePage.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – Ability to set the workflow confirmation screen message to ‘Continue’ as Green and ‘Continue and Close’ as Grey

The users were getting confused when they progressed a workflow as they would press the green confirmation button and would then be presented with a view for another objects (that they had previously opened) as Green performs a Close on the curren...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration