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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 for "OPTIMIZE FOR n ROWS" to be added to DELETE, UPDATE Statements

OPTIMIZE FOR 1 ROW can be added to SELECT SQL. One reason may be to influence the optimizer to chose one index over another, or to not perform a SORT with List Prefetch Adding OPTIMIZE FOR 1 ROW to a DELETE statement results in an error: EXPLAIN A...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cleanup of uploaded files older than threshold

Cognos 11 allows uploading of files to be analyzed in dashboards. As all users are able to upload such files, it would be useful to have a facility to remove files that are either older than a specific threshold or have not been accessed for a sp...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Global change option for the Search and Select prompt

The Deltek client, FHI360, is asking for the following enhancement, "We ask for a global change option in the Select and Search prompt where the default selection should be, “Contains any of these keywords” instead of “Starts with any of the...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 CLI driver should include all public Root CA certificates

Our applications connect to DB2 using the CLI driver. For years this was not an issue until the SSL certificate expired on the DB2 server and had to be replaced. The replacement certificate was not signed with the same Root CA packaged with the dr...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Full Column Match and I1 Access on SQL with Correlated Sub-Queries Containing Column Expressions and Supporting IoE

Some queries with column expressions - DATE(A1.EFCTV_TS) <= DATE('04/05/2020') for example, and an Index on Expression to support the expression are achieving I1 access while others are not. It appears this is because of how the query is curren...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

[SAP Pack] ABAP Extract Stage's non-default ftp port setup support request

hello I want to use ftp, the data transfer method of ABAP Extract Stage. There is no ability to specify ftp port. The use of the ftp default port 21/tcp shows up as a vulnerability in security audits, so a different port must be used. The ibm case...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support legacy application types in PAx

Application folders are not only used for Excel sheets which is the only supported file type in PAx as of v32. Applications are used to:- Consolidate TI processes (for admin and business users)- Link to views in control cubes for metadata review, ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Incompatible platform variation of Db2 software

Our mission-critical system on the IBM i 7.1 has been in operation. But we are promoting the project that upgrades our IBM i 7.1 to i 7.3, because of software withdrawal and support discontinuance.So that also DBMS become upgrade to Db2 for i V7R3...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Make it simple to setup SSL connectivity

There must be something that can be done within Db2's installation/configuration steps to make it easy for users to enable SSL connections - as easy as it is to set up non-SSL connections (or as easy as typing "https://" in a browser window). This...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Not under consideration