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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...
19 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Inserting an element in a dimension at the right index

Sorting element names is difficult when the dimension is set on Automatic order and the sorting is done on an alias. Like Project IDs as principal name, Project Name as alias. You would like to sort on the Name most of the time. When the ID is not...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Create custom images for Spark Notebooks

Desjardins has a data scientist team and they would like to customize Spark images for various data scientist. Similar to what is documented here, but with Spark https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=environments-building-cust...
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 3 Future consideration

PAW: Checkbox data format

Checkboxes are very useful for mappings and for custom approvals. Now the users need to select values in picklist in custom approvals (like "approved" or "declined"), or to enter "0" and "1" in mappings. It would be much more comfortable for them ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Ability to extend metadata for Users

We require the ability to add meta data to the user within OpenPages. Currently we are limited to First name, Last Name , email and Description. It would be valuable for us to be able to extend to items like Dept , Location etc. This would be data...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Externalize non-DSC SQL in IFCID 316

An old request that got rejected but is for me, and at least 52 other voters, important was the IFI 316 for non-DSC eligible Dynamic SQLs. The business case here has two major reasons: First and most important these days – Audit. Any Dynamic SQL m...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Help for complex utilities

For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Hide Move option in Grid View

For users with Write and Associate rights for a given object type (i.e Risk Assessment), Move option is available in a grid view. It would be useful to have a setting in order to hide "Move" option in the top blue bar of a Grid View. This has been...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Planned for future release

Make Db2 Connect ready for the future (which is already here)

Hi IBM Community, hi IBM Support, as part of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux version change, at the moment we have to set up many new server systems for the application software we support.Our application software relies heavily on DB2 and so the IBM D...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

New API operation for fraud marking a record in the whole cluster

The existing markFraud API operation receives as an input a URID that is specific of the API instance that will process this operation. This creates a possible information gap if the API instance that will process this operation is different from ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted