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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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Parameter 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' in Db2 LUW similar to Db2 z/OS

in Db2 z/OS there is a 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' parameter. We will need a similar parameter for Db2 LUW. Background: Our datawarehouse application 'IDH' uses many Bi-Temporal tables. An update of any row in the source system will lead to the logical t...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Enable use of sub-select in datamodule security filters

At this moment, version 12.0.3, it is not possible to use a sub-select in a security filter. We get syntax errors when we try to use a sub-select, but the syntax proves to be correct when used in native SQL. We need sub-selects to select from a se...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Reorg un

Title: Enable REORG to materialize column order changes safely Product/Component: Db2 for z/OS → Utilities → REORG Problem: Adding a column inserts at end; achieving a “middle” position requires unload/rebuild of large PBR/PBG tables, causing risk...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

XML export of views

Hello, It would be very helpful to have a native option in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) to export views directly as XML files. Currently, we have implemented a workaround that is quite elaborate: The Excel file is downloaded via the export...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enhanced recovery performance improvement

We encountered significant recovery performance issues (recovery time increasing exponentially as the number of objects rises) and the analysis in a Case showed that this was due to enhanced recovery’s non target index serialization (our backups a...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

STMM Monitoring

With the memory statistics similar to the ‘db2pd -dbptnmem’ output within the STMM logs, it would be possible to get memory usage report over time from Db2 perspective without any permanent monitoring tool (as long as STMM is used/active). It woul...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Chat UI support for UI widgets (forms, tables, non-textual response types)

Currently, agent chat can support text-based responses only. We are looking for chat UI enhancement so that UI widgets can be rendered in the chat to display input/output forms, interactive tables with radio buttons for data selection, and non-tex...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Delivered

Improvements in online DDL changes - DBD design

Our company uses DB2 zOS almost exclusively for dynamic SQL workloads. Our management expects that DB2 zOS also has high availability regarding DDL changes in this application szenario. If you intend to perform DDL changes in this environment duri...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 15 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Data Refinery Fails to Process Aliased SQL Columns

A user running a Data Refinery flow against a SQL Query asset is encountering a SQL error. The user has aliased a column in the SQL query (e.g., from default_category_value to source_category_value). However, when the Data Refinery flow generates ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review