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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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We want to cancel all Db2 THREADS with one command in a Db2 Datasharing Member.

Today we must cancel any single thread. During a Db2 migration or shutdown you must cancel the Db2 threads to stop Db2.
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

WatsonX for IBM i

An generative AI LLM helping write code for RPGLE would be huge! Codeium and CoPilot are nice, but you would think that IBM could come up with a better product!
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Under review

Expose API for managing enum values programatically

Currently, Tech team manages the Reference Data defined as Enum values. We would like to eliminate this IT dependency and would like to empower the business stake holders to be able to maintain the enum list. We also have downstream systems wantin...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

USING LOADINCURSOR for XML COLUMN even nullable

We have a table with a XML column defined NOT NULL. We periodically transfer data from production to preproduction using unload/load.Because XML column has value nobody have to read after having transfered data applications execute a sql update fo...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

The "Move" of an object must be allowed even if a user is not enabled to "Delete" the object

Actual OpenPages behaviour: if a user has not the right to delete an object, the Move of the object is not allowed. New requirement: The client needs to enable a user to the "Move " for "specific object", at Rule Template level, even if this user ...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

For each job, records the number of execution host CPU cores in the job's table

As we evaluate the utility of SMT2/4/8, we would like to be able to measure the performance difference of the applications at scale by recording the number of slots of the compute host for every job. This would achieved by adding a tinyint unsigne...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Avoid locking table at the start of a refresh

Currently DB2 z/OS Remote agent will try to lock a table, apparently to obtain the head of logs position, just before starting a table refresh. Although the lock is immediately released, in some customer environments it very hard to obtain this lo...
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

CANCEL THREAD Enhancement - to cancel threads by specifying a SCOPE(ssid)

This will help in cancelling of threads running in any of the LPARs in a Parallel Sysplex. Currently, DISPLAY THREAD supports SCOPE(GROUP). So, this would be a good feature to have. These can be very useful during IPLs when some thread is holding ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

TFUI Chart Method Type should include Percentage

The TFUI chart options for Method Type does not include Percentage. For example, if creating a Bar Chart on Issues by Type, while it is meaningful to show the absolute Count for each Bar, it would be equally, if not more, meaningful to show the Pe...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

SSO (Single Sign-On) for ODBC connections via ActiveDirectory authentication

The current configuration of a SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication for a Windows workstation is based on GSSCSM, for which support will be discontinued in future Informix releases and is very complex and error-prone. Alternatively, ODBC connection...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Under review