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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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Views lineage

Currently there is no easy was to find all the views that reference a table. There is data in _t_rewrite table but that is hard to parse in SQL. What is needed is a system table that would have a row for every table or view referenced by a view. T...
10 days ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Support for Integration of Iceberg Tables with Datastage Generic S3 Connector

The S3 connector in it's current shape & form does not support CRUD operations on S3 table bucket objects. We're current doing Data warehousing in Redshift instead of a Data lake in S3 as a workaround. Similar to the recent enhancement in Reds...
11 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Native integration with AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog (watsonx.data SaaS on AWS)

watsonx.data is being evaluated as a strategic query engine in AWS-based Data Mesh architectures, where governance is managed through AWS Lake Formation and metadata is stored in the Glue Data Catalog. Currently, watsonx.data does not natively sup...
5 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Planned for future release

Use direct-row access for queries using the RID-function and multi-row fetch

Suppose that you have a query like this: SELECT * FROM table A WHERE RID(A) = 21206417921 This query should use direct-row-access and should quickly determine a result. This is true if you do not use a cursor with multi-row-fetch. If you use a cur...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Rendering of rich media: images & videos

Rich media formats for content presentations, viz. images, videos, interactive charts, tables [see ideas for tables and charts] Making insights easier to understand and act upon. Instead of lengthy reports, users will receive clear summaries b...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 6 Delivered

Allow ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Create a native schema-type asset to associate database metadata with other assets and tables.

Today it is not possible to view database/schema descriptions in the IKC. Business analysts need this metadata on IKC to understand databases and relationships. BRADESCO is replacing the current IT data governance (EDC) solution with the IBM solut...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0
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Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
about 6 years ago in Db2 21 Not under consideration

REORG DISCARD for RTS history tables

The history data collected in SYSTABSPACESTATS_H and SYSIXSPACESTATSS_H are filled so quickly and causes huge impact on catalog and directory storage group. However the only maintenance mechanism available at the moment is delete command with wher...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include DB2 Warehouse as a supported quality rule output

From Case number: TS019727896 Within the architecture that we have proposed to be able to use IKC as a Data Governance tool and where DB2 Warehouse is as a fundamental source, we need to have it as an option to create output tables of the results ...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered