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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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Db2Z INSERT with VALUES should allow multiple rows

Db2 LUW and many other RDMS allow one INSERT with VALUES to insert multiple rows at once. Db2 Z does not allow that syntax. Db2 Z INSERT with VALUES only allows one row at a time So if you have multiple rows you want to insert with the INSERT usin...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Improved functionality for tablespace fast pre-allocation

My customer is experiencing huge performance problems due to Tablespace Pre-allocation (DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION).At this time, IOCP Timeout occurs in Db2 and many tossbuffers occur in GPFS.This customer has been struggling with this problem for...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 6 Future consideration

Provide compatability between releases and PTF levels

We are a large multi system multi SYSPLEX environment with a minimum of 5 9's uptime availability across the board. Therefore, we normally do not upgrade anything across all LPAR'S of a SYSPLEX at the same time and certainly do not take down all o...
8 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Submitted

Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

Why is it useful? We have some legacy COBOL files that errors out with parsing error since it follows a different coding pattern for comments. The comments are included between REMARKS. and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in COBOL program. Currently, Manta d...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

More versatile scheduling options to PA chores

I think current scheduling options to PA chores is out-dated. You can set chore to run once per day, or you can set chore to run custom frequency days-hours-minutes-seconds. Thats it, no more options. Real life scenarios to versatile scheduling op...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Auto - Associate Required Contingencies

The application can identify based on advanced logic when a certain contingency needs to be associated to a use case. It cannot however automatically associate it to the use case. This puts a burden on a team to associate it even though it is not ...
2 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Future consideration

Db2 profiles - Enable monitoring and enforcement of AUTHIDs

Db2 v13 offers new feature of Db2 profiles to support monitoring and enforcement of TLS secure connections. Please add ability to do this at AUTHID level. Some apps and users have converted and we could put in a profile to ensure only secure conne...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Cube view should show data in PAW if there is no dimension in Row or Column

In a crosstab structure of cube view in PAW if we don’t put at least one dimension in both Rows and Columns the view does not show the data. This does not happen in TM1 Web. This is a very basic functionality of TM1 to play around with dimensions ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted