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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add boolean support for Oracle, Postgres and Db2 z/OS

Currently boolean fields are supported on Db2 LUW but not the DBMS's listed above.
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][MS] - Support controlling physical sessions of a logical session under SMC

This is related to request ID:134371Each Symphony session submitted to SMC should have a global "ID" I like to see a CLI that can control (such as kill) all physical sessions of a logic session under SMC, through the global "ID" of the logical ses...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

Infosphere Classic CDC - INCLUDESSID option

As a result of PMR 73348,101,616 and a subsequent meeting held between the client and the CDC development team, we discussed the creation of a new option to INCLUDESSID as an alternative to EXCLUDESSID. At this meeting we were requested to raise t...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

evolution for DB2 authorisation on DGTT table

In DB2V11 NFM, DGTT tables get a public implicit authorisation of which we cannot managed in DB2 Evolution giving the authorisation or not to use the DGTT by grant / revoke in DB2
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 - Support for Range-list index Scan in rowset Cursors

Range-list index scan is not supported for a cursor with rowset positioning. Rowset positioning is very popular as multiple fetch is very efficient for reading several rows from a result set. Range-list index scan is very efficient for SQL paginat...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 PBR RPN: Reduce DSSIZE per Partition

With PBR RPN, it is possible to set a DSSIZE for one or more partitions. While it is possible to set a greater DSSIZE for a partition, it is currently not possible to set a DSSIZE smaller than the one for the Tablespace. When setting a smaller DSS...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Optimistic concurrency in the BigQuery write modes

ibm engineering has asked WMT to add an enhancement request for Optimistic concurrency in the Google BigQuery write modes
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Option for Default to JSON Editor When Viewing Node Details

Our dialog can become very complex, using complex JSON objects and expression language. The context editor does not show enough information so every time we view a node, we immediately switch to the JSON editor. This becomes tedious when we are do...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration