IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Db2: Recovery of Mainframe Db2 databases without applying changes.

When the DB2 is performing a recover it uses log and copy files, it may be some sitations where the log contains changes that we dont want to restore. For exemple we may have inserts made by an authorized program and also updates performed by an u...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improved message text for DSNU537I

DSNU537I displays a page set which is not allowed in the list. As the utility can not know what the user intends to do, the text should be changed to a more general text without naming a pageset. Why: 1) Assume userA runs COPY with 4 objects, one ...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Bulk rename for the record names

Once records are created, there may be an option to change the name of the record, however there is no method to do this in Bulk. For example, If we have created 3 risks with the name BSL_RSK_001, BSL_RSK_002 & BSL_RSK_003, there is no bulk or...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Allow Load To Do Inline Image Copies Of LOB & XML Tablespaces

We have users running the Load utility and we require them to make inline image copies during the Load. We grant these users the LOAD database privilege so they can do loads with inline image copies. We don't grant these users the IMAGCOPY d...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

OpenPages Support external Oracle database

Customer deployed OpenPages in docker containers and using an external Oracle Database. They want to move to CP4D but external oracle database is not supported. IBM needs to add support for external oracle database.
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas 1 Under review

Prevent FastMap from stopping uploading at any error found on a record

The client would like to have a more quick and efficient way of massively uploading data. Actually Fastmap checks one by one all records to be uploaded, applying its out of the box controls, plus custom triggers controls and stopping every time it...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 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

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

Re-Positioning of the Delete object Function

We had a scenario whereby an object was accidentally deleted via the Admin UI, exacerbated by cascade delete being enabled, meaning a large umber of objects were soft deleted. IBM do not currently support un-deletion should this arise meaning that...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

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