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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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Provide wider coverage for Db2 catalogue generated utilities.

The Db2 catalogue allows users to use the U.R line command, for example, beside a tablespace to automatically generate a runstats batch job for that tablespace. However, it would also be nice if users had the option to use the U.R line command bes...
almost 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Modify redirected recovery to eliminate the need for repair catalog of target

Modify redirected recovery to eliminate the need for repair catalog of target The relatively new Db2 utility enhancement of redirected recovery is very useful When recovering a target tablespace from another tablespace, the IBM documentation is ve...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Export Configuration for Role Templates via UI

With OpenPages v7.4 it is now possible to import a Role Template via the "Import Configuration" feature. However to export a single Role Template, the ObjectManager still has to be leveraged (requiring application server access). Being able to sel...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Add the ability to upload Db2 transaction log files to TSM that had been moved manually by DBA

We use Db2 log archiving to TSM servers. No failover archive path has been set yet. Under rare circumstances we faced situations where log archiving to TSM does not work or slows down and the active log path fills up. To prevent disk full situatio...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Applications and Plans - Scheduling Tasks

Reoccurring schedules for tasks Carhartt Business users will use Applications and Plans on a monthly cycle. Currently updating due dates in a task is very manual. Each task in the plan has to be opened individually to assign the start and end date...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

DECFLOAT support for COBOL and PLI with DCLGEN

When we run DCLGEN on an object with a DECFLOAT column, we get the following error: DSNE958I DCLGEN DOES NOT SUPPORT THE SQL DATA TYPE DECFLOAT (SQLTYPE 996) FOR THE PLI LANGUAGE DSNE905I EXECUTION COMPLETE, MEMBER ... ADDED The created DECLARE an...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Reorg blocking applications when using "allow write access"

While an "allow write acces" online reorg is running lock-wait contention can happen based on the number of rows being updated by an application. The locks for the application can escalate to lock an x lock. If this situation happens, the reorg sh...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Full package support for Restful services

A restful service contains one and only one SQL statement and is, simply put, a mini-static package. It was delivered with a couple of problems. Firstly, the only way to tell if this static package is a restful service is to look at the HOSTLANG c...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

IBM Planning Analytics. Ukrainian language

Our team is currently working on creating demos for a client using IBM Planning Analytics. However, we have encountered an issue where the Ukrainian language is not available in the user interface PAW. The client has strict requirements for the in...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration