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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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LOAD with OVERRIDE for Columns with GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP

we use partitioned tables which must be new structured from time to time. But we have to put all the old data in the new structure. But with column mentioned ( GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP ) it is not possible...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

Improve auto-prompting for Data Modules

Auto-prompts seem to leverage the underlying data type of the table/database. That's fairly short-sighted since numeric types can be used to represent non-metric data. For example the year or the month number of a time table. It's perfectly valid ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Improve IDAA load throughput beyond 2TB/h

Banco do Brasil has a warehouse (to be accelerated by IDAA) that has 150TB of data today, and will grow to about 380TB by end of 2014. Many of the big tables get changed by non-logged operations, table and partition re-load is the only option to k...
about 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

DB2 - exhaustive space search issue when APPEND option hits

System : DB2 V9 for z/OS with 2-way data sharing environment The Customer is using DB2 V9 and when they change the table as APPEND YES, In the case the APPEND option hits the end and no extend can be taken, it will also use exhaustive space search...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Need glossary and lineage functionalities for visualization in Report

At CFIA we are doing a POC for an important project that requires to utilize the glossary and lineage capabilities from InfoSphere IGC in the Cognos reports. However, it seemed that the glossary and lineage functions are only available for the tab...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support Automatically Convert Numeric SQL Type(to Decimal or etc) for File Connector Stage to Parquet Format

Problem : We need to migrate data from SQL Server to Parquet Format. One of the data type in the SQL Server is Numeric type. We will run the migration job process using RCP. Workaround : 1. We need to change data type to another type, but we ar...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Increase FTM.CUSTOMER_ADVICE_RECIPIENT Table ADDRESS2 and ADDRESS3 Column Size To 64 Bytes from 30 Bytes.

Please increase the FTM.CUSTOMER_ADVICE_RECIPIENT table ADDRESS2 (delivery address line) and ADDRESS3 (last line) column size to 64 bytes from 30 bytes. We understand 30 bytes is the minimum, and 64 bytes is the optimum recommendation by the Pos...
about 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Delivered

[defect #: 30752] - Table not dropped from CDC when drop command executed followed by create command

We had a scenario from our production environment, where drop command and create commands were executed from DB2 database end however CDC did not even fail. Raised a case TS002881434 and support team raised a defect as well for same [defect #: 30752]
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Most trivial function: SEARCH!

Cognos Analytics on cloud 11.1 1) I'm at creating a new report. 2) I'm at Report > Queries > Query1 3) when I'm adding filters to the query and I want to choose columns from the data module/package or whatever data source. example: DETAIL FI...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Mapping Source Tables to Target Tables using Db2 Administration Tool masking principles

Using Db2 Log Analysis Tool, Classic Menu, option 5 "Execute dynamic SQL in batch", we are able to map from Source Table to Target Table. But table owner and table name of source and target name must be specified at full. If we have 50 tables, whe...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered