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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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Adding a search box for IMS Definitions when creating Virtual Tables

Currently, when creating IMS Virtual Tables, users must select a DBD and PSB from a dropdown list. However, since these follow a naming convention, finding the correct DBD or PSB can be time-consuming and inefficient. To improve usability, I propo...
9 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Reset the serial value in the partition page if the table no longer has a serial column

If you want to check whether a serial value is close to its maximum value, it is very unpleasant that tables that no longer have a serial value or whose serial value has been changed to a Serial8 or BigSerial value still have the last value in the...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Prevent package invalidation after ALTER TABLE ROTATE

System: Production management databaseActor: Developers maintaining the databaseDescription: Our customer runs a 24/7 production management OLTP system with IMS V10 and DB2 V9 for z/OS on which its transaction rate gets as high as 10 trans/sec, an...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1

Add Export and Download Options for Tables

We would like the ability to export tables displayed in markdown format to external files such as CSV or Excel. Ideally, tables should include a download button so that users can easily download the displayed data in CSV/Excel format for further u...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Future consideration

DB2 LUW version of z/OS Utility Estimator

reference to: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/soo-kim/2025/02/27/introducing-new-db2-utility-reorg-estimation-featu We would like a DB2 LUW version of the z/OS Utility Estimator to help estimate the duration of planned offline table...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Enable use of DSN_PROFILE* tables global variables for local workload

At the following link, we see global variables can be used with profile tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=connections-setting-built-in-global-variables-profile-tables However, there is a sentence that mentions the following:...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add "Exclude entities" to PostgreSQL connection

We are using Manta scanning one of our PostgreSQL database. One schema has more than 10000 tables and more than 90% of those tables are partitioned tables and we want Manta scanner excludes those partitioned tables. We noticed that Oracle connecti...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Simplify Data Quality (DQ) Violation Management by removing the need for a dedicated database table for storing DQ violations.

Currently, managing Metadata Enrichment DQ violations requires users to create and maintain a separate table in an external database, which complicates the process and adds unnecessary overhead. While CP4D has the capability to access DQ violation...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration