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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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Auto assign Data Classification

we will like to explore option to automatically assign data classification to the assets based on predefined condition. This is required as when we run the job to publish catalog, the software does not tell us which is the new tables being publish...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Enhance system profile table usage by allowing combination of filtering categories

Using system profile tables to control remote connections/threads is a very useful feature and hence it is more and more used.During our tests, we found out that we have the need to combine DSN_PROFILE_TABLE filtering categories. Currently, for ex...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH with PDQ should favour use of indices for sort when more than one column is specified

Currently (in my testing) any UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statement with PDQ specifying more than one column will not use indices for sort and will instead scan the table, write to temporary files and sort. This is true even when all columns spe...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Sort data calculations should not be used to determine number of passes for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statements where an index is used, fix misleading explain output

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH can be used with an explain option. The explain file always shows a sort data calculation which then determines the number of table scans (passes) the database engine will undertake. These are calculated before any de...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Avoid UPDATE STATISTICS [LOW] sampling failures due to data skew

If onconfig parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE is set, sampling will be used for all UPDATE STATISTICS LOW commands. On some tables this will always or nearly always fail due to data skew, printing a message like: Warning: update statistics low using samplin...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

STATUS_CHANGE_TIME Colum doesnt exist in in mon_get views

We are currently working to migrate all our SNAP views to MON_GET views/Functions as SNAP views caused a response spike in our PROD environment recently.We are using STATUS_CHANGE_TIME columns of sysibmadm.applications to check lock waits on the d...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Custom Control (Authorized Drill Through)

When creating custom controls like visualizations or data tables it is not possible to perform an out-of-the-box drill-through (authored drill through). Yes, you can use URL parameters to create a psuedo drill-through. However, this is very poor p...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Intelligent Data Source and Credentials Replacement in Job Steps

Whenever a job step is created based on an IBM SPSS Modeler stream, the user has to specify the resources to use for the ODBC DSN and Credentials for each ODBC data source/export node in the underlying stream.Each selection requires a minimum of 6...
almost 11 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

the task "Table Shrink" allow to specify unit of work or duration

I used "table shrink" on large table, sometime it caused the long transaction on the other application processes due to the logical logs usage. In some cases, the size of table is large so the "table shrink" take too long and impact system on peak...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Real Time Monitoring

Real-time monitoring by percentage of use for an specific table generating an alert on the console, we use another comercial solution, that provides us with alerts whenever a table under his management surpasses the defined thresholds, we work wit...
over 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered