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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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Enhance RECOVERY utility to use information in a Safe Guarded Copy snapshot as recovery base for Db2 object level recovery

We do a Safe Guarded Copy (SGC) every 2 hours. The ongoing value for SGC is for now primarily as an insurance for a CyberAttack by providing a last good copy. The idea is 'simply' - although I know there is likely nothing simple in this - to be ab...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Ensure that several messages put into MQ via DB2MQ.MQSEND within one Db2 UOW are received in correct order at the other side of the queue

Db2 is called by CICS. CICS is coordinator of the global UOW. Within this UOW there are two calls of DB2MQ.MQSEND to put message 1 and message 2 into a MQ queue in a specific order. MQPOLICY used for this DB2MQ.MQSEND calls is defined with SYNCPOI...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow multiple hierarchies in the Measure dimension of a Planning Analytics (PA) cube to be used in Cognos Analytics

We have a Planning Analytics cube where the Income Statement Measure Dimension has more than one hierarchy. This works fine in a Planning Analytics Exploration and also in Planning Analytics for Excel, but it does not work in Cognos Analytics. In ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

Change Load Backout YES delete log process

During execution of LOAD RESUME YES BACKOUT YES SHRLEVEL NONE LOG NO DISCARDS 1, if 1 duplicate row is funded, all rows loaded will be backed out, regardless if there was just 1 duplicate. DB2 call Data Manager back out all the other rows writing ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Granular grant-able authorization to allow explaining all statements stored in DSC

Currently there is a requirement to hold at least SQLADM authority to explain statements kept in DSC, and which were executed with a different SQLID. This is security exposure as for such basic action like statement explain it gives the user all t...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

wxO outage notifications sent directly to clients.

Customers have expressed a need to know if their wxO instances have been affected when there is a regional outage. For example, today (10.20.25) us-east-1 instance experienced a outage and although it appears to be functioning normally the custome...
18 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Pixtral 12B - Multiple Image Support

According to the Model Card of Pixtral 12B (Pixtral 12B Model Card), there is support for sending multiple images in a single message. However, the WatsonX.AI API does not currently support this feature, resulting in the following error message: "...
12 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Support REORG for DEFINE NO

I have heard, in various IBM presentations (Haakon at IDUG Valencia, John Lyle at CCDB2) talking about Db2 Vnext, the statement "no migration to vnext if you have 6 byte RBA/LRSN or non-UTS tablespaces". This if fine unless you happen to have old ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Under review

Change Db2 Load And Db2 Reorg To Selectively Ignore KEEPDICTIONARY

Change Db2 Load and Db2 Reorg to ignore KEEPDICTIONARY if the tablespace part is currently compressed and* SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS IN ('F','H') & SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS <> SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS_USED OR * SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS = 'Y' & zP...
24 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
10 months ago in Db2 1 Under review