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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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Allow Db2 z/OS REORG with NOCHECKPEND

Customer is using the REORG utility to cull or reduce rows from a table. However, if the table in questions has RI relationships with other tables, these related tables may go into a CHECK PENDING state. If the REORG can be run with a NOCHECKPEND ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support for MongoDB via JDBC

MongoDB is a very prelevant database in the business world and its marketshare is growing. Many customers will benefit from this enhancement
about 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Decrease IFCID 402 volume.

We have a mutual customer that is experiencing a high number of IFCID 402 records. They opened a query with IBM and was told, “ any connection that falls under that filtering scope will have a statistics information block which will get written ou...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

New UI Dashboard - Ability to display our own Cognos reports

The new UI only allows for 3 out of the box dashboards (My Assignments, Subscriber, Oversight) to be displayed. We want the ability to create our own dashboards using our own Cognos reports. This way we can make sure the dashboards more closely ma...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 7 Delivered

Db2 Admin Tool - issue regenerate view after table column alter

After altering a table column referenced by a view an alter regenerate view should be issued as best practice. IBM Db2 Admin Tool does not issue the regenerate view command currently and we believe it should. After discussing with Db2 Support and ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

High logging volume on SYSUTILX during utilities execution

Swiss Re observe up to 50% of the log volume is written for SYSUTILX, which is generally updated on phase changes across utilityexecutions, as well as during checkpoint/commit interval. A deeper analysis shows:- Most of the records being logged co...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add Elastic Search as a source and sink repository for CP4D

Customers all over the world use Elastic Search as a repository of data. In this case we have an opportunity for a US Government customer that has a significant amount of data in Elastic Search and the opportunity hinges on the ability for all CP4...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Generate Recover instead of Rebuild for COPY YES Indexes when using Redirected Recovery for Indexes defined as COPY YES

Scenario: Redirected Recovery for TS and TB with COPY YES indexes Recovery Expert generates Rebuild index DSNUTILB cards even for indexes which are defined as COPY YES and have a valid copy that can be used in a Recover statement. IBM recover util...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

An Issue in SPSS Modeler Database Functions and IIAS

Incompatibility between using Netezza and Db2 products. Both UDFs (User Defined Function) and built-in functions are available in the case of Netezza, but in the case of IIAS (IBM Integrated Analytics System) / Db2 only UDF is available in CLEM. ...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered

IDAA behavior when replicated table is suspended

In our environment we replicate tables and we then expect the IDAA copy to be kept in sync with the DB2 table (within reason). If a table gets 'suspended' for whatever the reason, the data on that table begins to grow stale. Queries submitted agai...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Delivered