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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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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...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

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...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Insync: monitor table status after W8004 failure events

The customer migrated from CDC to Insync; there are some alarms related to CHC0742I/CHC0743I messages (IDLE and ACTIVE status) The message about ACTIVE status (like CHC0743I message) is not available in Insync so manual check are required after W8...
12 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

TRIGGERS referencing system temporal tables

Hello, Since we are in DB2 V10 we use triggers with bi-temporal tables (system temporal + business temporal table) to implement complex relational integrity rules that can not be defined using standard primary/foreign keys. It's related to simple ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Multi-Agent System to Automate the Selection and Evaluation of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models

The proposal is to create an ecosystem of agents in Watson Orchestrate capable of working collaboratively to analyze structured and unstructured data, identify business objectives, and automatically select the best Machine Learning or Deep Learnin...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Needs more information

Fix "ZRC=0x870F003E=-2029060034=SQLO_QUE_BAD_HANDLE "Bad Queue Handle" - when db2 utility output is piped

This error has been reported since 2014 and still not fixed as of DB2 LUW CSB build level 2503051558 (March 2025 release). You have updated DT236621 as recently as February 2025 and claim this is resolved; but we are at the March 2025 release and ...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3 Under review

Improve ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION

Currently ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION only allows the ENDING value to be a constant, minvalue, or maxvalue. I would suggest adding the ability to generate DATES or TIMESTAMPS so that additional programming is not necessary to generate the ALTER s...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Suport Multiple data marts in Controller FAP fully

A customer publishes several datamarts from a single source. Structures are updated in Controller and the user goes into FAP administration and tries to update structures on all datamarts concurrently. Sometimes this will fail because the temporar...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Under review

Table Dashboard widget to add text commentary

Currently slides are used to present numbers and text commentary. A table is used to structure the text commentary. Moving to Cognos Analytics we would like to be able to replicate this text commentary in a table within the Cognos dashboard. Curre...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Under review

MDI>Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection. [For Teradata and Oracle exclude scenario is working fine]

While creating MDI job Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection and its working for other connections like Teradata and Oracle. we need the same option to be worked for GCP Big Query connection also.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration