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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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LOAD Replace improvement for RI tables

We had a Db2 DDL change where a new table "b" was created with a RI constraint to a parent table "a" which was also modified (DROP/CREATE). Table "a" had several rows which were unloaded before the change and loaded back after the DDL changes (LOA...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support of Differential Refresh on DB2 for IBM i

To support differential refresh on DB2 for IBM i. Truncating tables on IBM i is very difficult given the locking mechanism and locking requirements the TRUNCATE or CLRPFM has on that platform. This makes Differential refresh a great alternative to...
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Truncate table partiton

1. many customers expect to truncate a table partition without first detach and then drop, and finaly add a new partition with the same definition as the detached partition, because they may design their range partition as "Jan, Feb, ... Dec" with...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add filter tree element for time series breaking year, month (string), days, time...

When building a dashboard, it's a common requirement to filter time in group blocks, just like in MS Excel (example attached). This feature do not exists in cognos dashbord for filtering, although there's something similar in the table view widget...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Improve Ontape Point-in-Time Restores for Tables

The archecker tool can be used for point-in-time restores of table data from Level 0 Informix backups in conjunction with whatever logs were created after the Level 0 backup. However, if an organization does one Level 0 backup per week, then they ...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

Use Both Workstation Name and APPLNAME (or any other control combination) to Create a Granular Profile

Create more granular DB2 profiles by specifying 2 different control points in the DSN_PROFILE_TABLE.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

USING LOADINCURSOR for XML COLUMN even nullable

We have a table with a XML column defined NOT NULL. We periodically transfer data from production to preproduction using unload/load.Because XML column has value nobody have to read after having transfered data applications execute a sql update fo...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Search text in the report from the Cognos Portal Search

We are looking for option to have wide search in the cognos portal. We are only allowed with 11.1.x search functionality was enhanced and allows for searching of objects such as table and column labels in addition to report names, folder names, pa...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

For each job, records the number of execution host CPU cores in the job's table

As we evaluate the utility of SMT2/4/8, we would like to be able to measure the performance difference of the applications at scale by recording the number of slots of the compute host for every job. This would achieved by adding a tinyint unsigne...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration