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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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FR581: Enable pushdown and transitive closure for LIKE with parameter markers to table expressions

As part of SAP Core Data Services (CDS), SAP supports 'type as you search' capability when entering values in panels. As part of this processing, they issue the following query on a view which includes a UNION clause. The access path with DB2 is n...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow TAPEUNITS to use virtual tape drives

The COPY utility utilizing templates allows for TAPEUNITS(0) to let COPY decide the appropriate number of physical tape drives to use. If all tape drives are virtual, copy will only use one tape drive. This requires hard coding TAPEUNITS(n) to get...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make lsadmin/badmin accept "yes" and "no" as answers

Questions asked by `lsadmin` and `badmin` (and maybe other administrative LSF commands) only accept "y" and "n" as answers. "yes" and "no" are not accepted but should be
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Additional capabilities for tracking and managing distributed applications.

Be able to Tag IP addresses and other identifiers to group them together and provide the capability to watch or capture activity /errors/issues by the tag.Also, add currentPackageset (Collection) as an identifier for SQL captures. Tagging would al...
about 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow option to save a view as an MDX view or standard view when using cube viewer in PAX or PAW

With both PAX and PAW we are able to create a new cube view by opening the cube viewer and clicking the save icon. Clicking this save icon will publish the view for later reuse. When views are created by this cube viewer within PAW/PAX the views a...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Include "Process Progress Report" in PAW

The process progress report in Architect doesn't feature in PAW. Its helpful for when a process is taking a long time and you want to know what tab its stuck on. Something to give visibility on how a process is progressing is helpful for modeling ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create Schema Based on Shared Container Links

When columns of the Shared Container links do not match the metadata of the stage in the job on mapping it, you should have the option to add the missing columns in the schema.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support of Oracle 12 release 2

Are there any plans to provide patches for 11.5 and 11.3 that would make them compatible with Oracle 12.2? Can we escalate a request for those patches to be created? How quickly could we expect a patch if they will create one for us. If we have ou...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

MapR Support for Dask Component in Conductor

Version: 2.5.0Platform: x86Description: We'd like to request the development team to include MapR support for the Dask component of Conductor 2.5.0. We would like to be able to use the DataConnector to connect to MapR to read and write within a da...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future consideration