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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Quick Scan: table/asset business term assignment please

Quick Scan does not currently assign a business term to the table/asset level. It only assigns at the column level. Table level is needed as well. Ideally a table level term/class could be assigned and then a classification could be automatically ...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Find and Replace functionality should be applied to only selected items in Collaboration, not all items by default

The current functionality of the 'Find and Replace' button requires filters to be in place to allow only selected items to be updated. Otherwise all items in the Collaboration Area are included for updating even if only a few items are ticked in t...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

MS SQL SERVER 2017/2019 Replication target/source support

Now is mid of 2019, but the latest MS SQL Server support is version 2016. Customer is upgrading their MS SQL Server to 2017 and above. And found the Queue Replication does not support the new 2017 server. Failed to create control table.
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Not under consideration

Limit query for DMC Storage panel to active tables

Limit query scope for storage panel to active tables. Query on a peoplesoft DB takes 53 min whereas limiting scope to active tables (MON_GET_TABLE), it takes < 5 min. On Peoplesoft DB, we have about 65K tables when only 7K are used.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Delivered

Exploration support for calculations in Starting Points

Currently, Explore cannot support calculations in Starting Points. This would be very useful as a lot of the benefit from Data Modules comes from the ability to easily merge data sources together and create calculations from the resulting table. I...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Create an InformixHQ sensor to obtain the slowest queries directly from InformixHQ repository instead local SQLTRACE on the instance..

Complementing idea INFX-I-557, it would be great if we may have the report of the heaviest/slowest queries from the InformixHQ repository, instead the local SQLTRACE tables.
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create an Informix-HQ sensor that populates an historical data table with the slowest/heaviest queries on an instance.

SQLTRACE has proved been a valuable resource to identify slow/heavy queries. An even sysadmin may store a history of the SQLTRACE output, it would be great to have a filter for the heaviest/slowest queries, and store them as a sensor of Informix-HQ.
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Datagate should replicate z/OS indexes

- When adding a table, datagate should offer the opportunity to import, after table loading, zOS existing indexes
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Backup on RSS - option to allow with raw tables.

The new 14.10.FC6 feature to be able to run backups on an RSS node would be useful to reduce load on the Primary. We would like an onconfig parameter to allow backups on the RSS even when there are raw tables. We would expect the raw tables to hav...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Data Asset View w/ Business Term Export

Looking for a simple export functionality, into CSV, the MDE asset view which includes the business term and the description along with the column name it is assigned to. The user has the ability to view and select multiple assets and/or columns n...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered