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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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Integrating DCLGEN with Db2 Admin tool

Hi Team, Our Customer was using BMC for Db2 tool and they wanted to move to IBM tools, specially Db2 Admin tool as a replacement for BMC. Earlier, with BMC, they had a interface of DCLGEN integrated with BMC. Currently, in IBM Admin tool (V12.1), ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide a method to accurately obtain package executions counts from SMF records

SMF record information for number of times a DB2 package executed is incorrect. As an example, when a package is executed via a thread 10 times DB2 records the SMF information as 1. Our TDS tables are built using SMF information. We use TDS packag...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Ignore warning or error

When creating undo records there is the possibility, that the rows for an affected table could not be recreated, because an image copy is missing (ALAA107E). The job for the "DB2 LOG ANALYSIS TOOL" stops. What we expect is, that to tool writes a w...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Delivered

Support for creating DB2 Load Data Sets in RECFM=VBS Format with embedded LOB data

DB2 LAT to support creation of load files in RECFM=VBS with embedded LOB/XML data. DB2 LAT supports log processing to create load files for tables with LOB/XML columns. At present DB2 LAT only allows LOB/XML columns to be extracted into PDS or PDS...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Tool db2batch should be able to display Number of rows affected

Often db2batch is used for tuning / benchmarking purposes and very often the number of affected rows is interesting. Command line tool. 'db2'. provides the option to display the Number of rows affected, db2 -tvmf <SQL-DML-File> $ db2 -tvmf...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

TS Rolling Window Containers dropping dormant window should be similar to DETACH FRAGMENT

When a dormant fragment is removed the data is gone for good, unless you manually unload to a new table or flat file. On large TS this is very time and disk restrictive. It is also hard to coordinate on embedded systems
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provision summary report on data archival processing

An enhancement or a new menu is needed in Optim to generate and show a report on archival and deletion processing summary so far OR based on some filters. Below is the business case. Requirement : Customers have been using the Optim based archi...
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Use SP DSNUTILU with IDAA LOADER SERVER.

We tried to use WLM stored Procedure DSNUTILU to run HLV Loader instead of DSNUTILB with JCL without successful. We opened PMR 16347,250,631 to treat this issue and we was informed that is not is possible, then at this moment we can not use IDAA L...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add Lookup Tables to the Structure Changes that are tracked

Our external auditors are adding controls to the mapping of data (trial balance and statisical data) into Cognos. In order to elminate the need for the walk-through of negative and postive testing in Cognos (on a regular basis) it would be helpful...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Excel Export Group repeated cells set at page level

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration