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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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IFC processing - Avoid writing a LOGREC for an expected 0C4 abend.

Reduce number of entries for 0C4 abends in LOGREC. For instance 0C4-38 abends at Csect DSNWAACT Offset X'1118' is an expected abend and thus it shouldn't be written in a logrec. This abend0C4 is expected and DB2 FRR recovery routine retry the move...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Clear presentation in section_actuals, which part of the plan is currently running

It should be clear in section_actuals which part of the plan has actually "run" Please mark non-accessed lolepops as "-1" , "NA" in the section_actuals column of the activity table (event monitor for activities). Then this can be distinguished fro...
6 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Allow a MASS DELETE as a recovery point for a tablespace

As we discussed in case TS019823289, we believe it's necessary to be able to use a MASS DELETE (recorded in SYSCOPY) as a recovery point for a tablespace. This would avoid reading large amounts of log files that, in our view, aren't necessary. We ...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Under review

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

An option in the case actions to add an option to add entry to risk list.

For example, when you want to temporarily block specific type of transactions to the card/user that we have case on, but we don't want to block the card/user in the auth system or banking. And also to save some time of the users working with the s...
2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical Submitted

Reorg rebalance should be possible for tables with XML column

Reorg rebalance should be possible for tables with XML column: We have some very big XML tables with 200 partitions, wich are growing very fast and not really equally in each partition. After some time we have partitions, where are 3 times more ro...
2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Under review

Implementing a DB2 HADR Cluster Solution on AWS with Route53 in Place of Overlay IP.

As outlined in the IBM technote, implementing a DB2 HADR cluster using Overlay IPs presents several constraints. The Overlay IP must be unique within the VPC and on-premises environments and must adhere to the private IP address range specified in...
8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud

Change the NUMDB without having to stop/start

Change the NUMDB without stopping or starting.The client constantly needs to create new databases to support various IBM tools such as BAW, ELM, CONTENT MANGER and ON DEMAND. Whenever new databases are created, they need to change the NUMDB parame...
7 months ago in Db2 / pureScale Submitted

Protection against viruses or malwares in files submitted in flows

In wxO, we can request to the user to upload a file that can be analysed by Orchestrate. For instance, Document Extractor and Text Extractor are proposed in the Flow Builder. In any flow that uses one of these components or imports a file from a u...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Model creation with data not empty selection by default

There is an error for computation of IRF if the model has been trained with empty values data. We would like that by default only records with non empty values that are selected for model generation should be used for training IRF.
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical Under review