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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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Wrap-around PBG table optimized for time-series data

Add support for a new type of PBG table/tablespace which is optimized for time series data, such as that used for journaling, logging, staging, history collection, etc. The main feature of this new PBG table/tablespace is that data is always inser...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Graphically show relationship between model objects and physical database objects

IKC needs to graphically show relationship between physical data model objects and physical database objects (e.g. tables and columns).
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 8 Delivered

Allow inplace reorgs cleanup overflows on partitioned tables with global indexes

We are seeing more OLTP customers moving from Db2 z/OS who require the ability to cleanup overflows through reorg on their partitioned tables which have been defined with global indexes.
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

How to show data quality shown in column/lineage for special data quality measurement cases?

Your goal is to show the data quality on the lineage, right? We have a couple "special cases" we're not sure how to handle. First is related to "virtual tables" (as in IA terminology - I believe they are called something else in IKC). The Data rul...
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Under review
108 VOTE

Obtain the query plan of a running query

Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.Sometimes it's hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Delivered

Table DQ_RULES in IKC Data Mart should have more metadata available

Table DQ_RULES in IKC Data Mart should have more metadata available. Columns CREATED_ON, CREATED_BY, MODIFIED_ON and MODIFIED_BY are missing
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Show sample data from assets deployed in the catalogue in a custom order

Table data in a database is added to by thousands to tens of thousands of new records every day and in some cases columns. In this case, it would be very helpful for Data Consumer to have sample data of the most recent data to judge the data quali...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

multi-language for governance artifacts & metadata enrichment

Intro Customer uses IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Cloud and wants to promote CPD services throughout business units within the company. BU are located in different countries with different languages. In the business unit (BU), which represents the...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

performance improvement for specific replication instance

Need improve deleting synchronization performance for big table with wide unique key column: We see latency keep increasing to 2 hours when batch deleting happen on big table which has ~1 billion rows and unique key includes 11 columns. More detai...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
about 3 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration