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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 DB2 DDL for DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY VARIABLE

DB2 Version 11 introduced the CREATE VARIABLE which allows a DBA (or someone) to define a "variable" which can be used by anyone (for example, in dynamic SQL in batch) This is a useful DB2 object. But, I would like to see the capability to DECLARE...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Updating views by TI and saved in Book

We are trying to update the view structure/properties and subset assignments to various named Views used in our PAW Reports. For instance, we are using an existing View created in architecture, in PAW Report by just dragging and dropping into the ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multiple index creation in parallel in the AMT

AMT procedure is used for online reorg. At index build phase, parallel multiple index creation is needed for faster completion of job.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

ALTER INDEX disable/enable feature

Oracle supports disabling index in ALTER INDEX command. Disabling an index means that the index still exists in the database, but it is not included in the optimizer. It would be also helpful in Db2 when find out the optimal Index.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Save exceptions in FORALL statement (PLSQL)

Oracle PL/SQL supports save exceptions in FORALL statement, but Db2 PL/SQL doesn't. For smooth oracle migration, the feature is required .
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

COGNOS on Linux / OPTIM ODM on Linux Connection using JDBC

We are trying to use Cognos to perform reporting against Archived data (IBM Optim).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Generate Encrypted Password During Silent Install of Web Tier/Gateway

For Linux, to install only the gateway on our webserver, we need to use a silent connect and install (cannot use GUI and will automate installation later). For a gateway only install, the installvariables.properties state that the encrypted passwo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[Workload Monitoring and Management] SOAM - Package - Remove obsolete/inconsistent SI packages from compute node (Epic32879)

Even if customer removed consumer, SI package corresponding to the consumer would be still remained on compute node. Symphony should be able to remove obsolete SI package from all compute nodes.There is an idea to remove obsolete packages.- Set fl...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - New Installation type: Management Console and Management Client

Currently, there are the following three installation types only.- Management Node- Compute Node- Client- Symphony DE But it's better to have new installation type "Management Console" or "Management Client".It contains ego/soam commands, but it d...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Add Tooltips for Various LSF Attributes

Today, on many Cacti pages, table headers include tooltips that explain the dimensions that are displayed in the table. It would be nice to have that for the 13 standard load indexes in LSF, and be able to pull the description from lsf.shared for ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration