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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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Improve Manta's PowerExchange file reader scanner's lineage by showing the source and target file system

Issue When Manta is used to scan the PowerExchange (PWX) file reader in Informatica PowerCenter, it successfully parses the PWX component. However, it does not display the actual source and target files based on the information available in the wo...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Under review

Providing a new HPU parameter so that we can chose the number of BSAM buffers for SORTIN.

When unloading and sorting data due to ORDER BY option, HPU reads data from tablespace and write it to DFSORT SORTIN dataset via QSAM with BUFNO=60, that is a default. In the environment where zHPF is enabled, DFSORT has used BSAM for SORTIN since...
about 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 4 Delivered

Backup and restore IBM Cloud Pak with Kasten

Hello, We are using Kasten (VEEAM) to backup and restore all of our apps on Openshift and we would like to use it also for IBM Cloud Pak (for data, for automation, for integration, ...). Regards.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Clear license validation cache result for IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ

Based on discussion with IBM Support, when connecting to z/OS via the IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ, the result of license validation is cached for 7 days. We want to be able to invalidate this cached result on demand.
about 2 months ago in Db2 0 Under review

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...

Variance analysis needed within Controller Web reporting

The selection of column content for reporting is prescriptive. You have to chose individual actualities, periods, etc. This means you can present say Actual data against Budget data. You cannot however then add a new column that then presents the ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Deposit some information about latch status in HVCOMMON to avoid Db2 abend

Db2 abended due to EOM in one of its threads (in this case an online REORG). The request is that some more information about thread status is saved in common storage (e.g. HVCOMMON) to help SSSC to cleanup the job and to avoid that it must take do...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Export global search list result

Using the Global Search function on the homepage, we would like to be able to export the data list result. In fact, actually is not possible to extract and download the result list.
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Ability to disable job requeuing in google resource connector when jobs exit with TERM_RC_RECLAIM

We have jobs that should not be requeued after partially running due to corrupting the job output data. We would like to have a queue level parameter to disable requeuing of jobs that exit for TERM_RC_RECLAIM. To be consistent with other features,...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

Dashboard Cascade with Dates

I have a model with 3 fields - Year, Year-Month, and Date. In reporting, I can set up a set of cascading prompts that allow for selecting the Year and then the subsequent months of the selected year and after selecting a Year-Month, the subsequent...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted