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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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New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

INTERPRET Function for Packed-decimal Data

We have some old tables with a CHAR column where we store a record formatted by a Cobol Program. It contains a mix of display data and packed-decimal data. To use that data we have to read it in a Cobol program and interpret it using a Cobol copyb...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support Session Scheduler Memory Limits with CGROUP v2

The current Session Scheduler in LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 14 does not support having memory limits when using CGROUP v2. Please enhance it to do so.
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Fix CVE-2023-5676 vulnerability in Symphony 7.3.2 Fixpack2 (build 601711) (Support case TS015911658)

Symphony 7.3.2 FP2 (build 601711) got affected from this CVE-2023-5676 due to the dependency of OpenJ9 that is actually vulnerable. (confirmed by IBM Spectrum Symphony Support). It was investigated in IBM support case TS015911658. In our company t...
7 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

Auto selection of same Object type Primary Parent.

Currently , when a existing primary parent is disassociated , the new primary parent is selected based on chronological order even when we update the heuristic setting to "Folder Context". For example if the Risk is the Primary Parent of the Contr...
7 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

IKC reporting to Google Big Query

Please add Google Big Query as an option for IKC reporting in addition to the existing DB2, Oracle, and PostGres options.
7 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE INDEX (ALL) NPI NO

At the moment only a RUNSTATS TABLESPACE with INDEX (ALL) is possible. When using DSNACCOX suggestions for a RUNSTATS may be generated only for one or few partitions of a PBR-TS. I therefore suggest a additional parameter (e.g. NPI YES/NO) to cons...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Increase limitation of Head file system

Hello Team, Currently we have limitation of head file system and we are sometimes having free space issues and we are manually getting the FODC dumps deleted for freeing up the space. Can we remove the limitation and increase the head file system ...
9 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Under review

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
12 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Increase the number of characters of relationship description or allow attaching files.

Increase the number of characters of relationship description or allow attaching files.
14 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review