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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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Ability to Merge in IDAA from multiple sources

Would like ability to merge into a single table in IDAA from multiple source subsystems
over 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Prevent read/write (RW) access as part of CREATE TABLE

Add a clause on CREATE TABLE that controls what state the table(space) is in immediately after the creation - UT,RO or RW (default)
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IDAA's support of CAST function for Unicode to EBCDIC conversion.

1. Product: IDAA Version 32. Actor: Customers who want to accelerate their EBCDIC query applications and tables using IDAA. 3. Description: Netezza stores data in Unicode UTF-8. Currently we can 'add' and 'load' DB2 for z/OS EBCDIC tables to IDAA,...
about 13 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

IDAA's support of recursive SQL syntax.

1. Product: IDAA Version 32. Actor: Manufacturing customers who have “Parts” table which uses hierarchical navigation, using DB2 for z/OS. 3. Description: At this moment recursive SQL syntax ( recursive common table expression ) is not support...
about 13 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Deferred ALTER support for conversion of segmented TS to UTS-PBR

DB2 10 introduced deferred ALTER support to convert segmented tablespaces to UTS-PBG without an outage to the object. As UTS-PBR is still a viable solution for design of certain tables, we would like to see deferred ALTER support expanded to allow...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Create DPSI with "unique within partition" option

Customer would like to have the option to create a DPSI on a very large partitioned tablespace where NPI is not desired which is "unique within partition". In the particular case where this would be especially useful, the partitioning is done with...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rendering of rich media: external agents to render wxO-native UI widgets (tables, forms, file upload)

[delivered in flows, needed for all tool interactions, including external agents] Polished visual elements with possible updates on Carbon components for Agentic AI - Giving users the agency to control the settings of the conversational interface....
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Rendering of rich media: tools can render wxO-native UI widgets (outside of flows; native agents only)

[capability delivered in flows, needed for all tool interactions] Polished visual elements with possible updates on Carbon components for Agentic AI - Giving users the agency to control the settings of the conversational interface. More intuitive ...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Planned for future release

enable to fabricate data for tables with circular dependency.

Currently IBM Optim TDF tool doesn't support tables with circular dependency. it doesn't even accept the tables with circular dependency to add into TDF project. We would like IBM to enable TDF to generate data for tables with circular dependency.
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 1 Future consideration

Q Capture to fetch XML document once instead of twice regardless of how many targets are registered

The current situation with QReplication architecture is that if you have 2 subs for one table, Q Capture will fetch the XML document twice from the table, once for each sub. Once the investment has been made for a unit of work, and all that remain...