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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Add ability to invalidate single plan without flushing entire package cache

I would like the ability to invalidate/flush access plans and performance data for a specific statement from the package cache. It seems like the EXECUTABLE_ID would allow us to uniquely identify an access plan for this purpose. Flushing the entir...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Delivered

508 Compliance : Table Data and Table Header to Table Definition

this is an ask for adding table header cells and table header cells to table definition. Currently we seeing this issue from Dashboard perspective
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Needs more information

Add JSON as new report output format

Besides HTML, Excel, Excel data, CSV, PDF and XML there should be another output format for reporting: JSON
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Portworks DR for CP for Data 4.5

Portworks DR was completely supported for CP for Data 3.5. It is necessary to keep this option in CP' scope. Recall that we have customers that are still using it, we don't have to take out Portworks. The most critical case is BAC. They are the l...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

See more data about uploaded file

In the properties of an uploaded file, I can see the size of the file, but I would like to see how many ROWS in the uploaded file. If possible, I would also like to see the number of COLUMNS, or anything else gathered on data input :)
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Apache Accumulo through DataWave

USG customer uses Apache Accumulo as one of their main data repositories. Need CP4D to be able to use Accumulo as a source and target data source for Information Governance, Data Science, Virtualization, and AI functionality (All of CP4D)
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Provide backup and restore procedures on Manta installed on-prem

Manta Documentation should have: 1. Procedures to backup all Manta data and config without requiring Manta to be shut down. This ensures that periodic backups of Manta can be taken without adversely affecting its availability. 2. Procedures to res...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Delivered

Replication support for IIDR CDC FlexRep for CockroachDB

We are trying replicate data from DB2 to CockroachDB and we are in the initial stages of testing and we came across the Flexrep engine in CDC which can be used to replicate data using a custom JDBC driver(Used PostgreSQL). And we also tried using ...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Make "Open Console" Suggest You Need to Create DMC Instance

When you create a DB2 Warehouse instance in a fresh install of CP4D 4.5 and then click on the "Open Database" you initially get just a blank screen. This screen should let the user know that they need to create an instance of Data Management Conso...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Delivered

DB2 should support auto de-activation of (monitoring) connections

Numerous application environments rely on DB2 mechanism of de-activating the database when the last connection terminated. E.g. stopping the application server leads to termination of the DB2 connections, which in turn automatically de-activates t...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration