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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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SMF data for use of SORTL and z15 Z Sort accelerator

Recently we have had some issues and queries around use of SORTL by Db2Sort and currently the only way to track whether SORTL is being used by Db2Sort is to scan every job and look for the message "CNK558I SORTL INSTRUCTION USED". To report on usa...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Sort for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Scenario Migration tool

A good step to help DOC users migrate to DODS would be a simple Scenario migration tool that would extract scenario data from DOC and import into DODS. An option to also "export DOC Scenario(s) as CSV" could help administrators import the DOC data...
almost 8 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / Decision Optimization for Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Need config param to allow user to specify what dbspaces should be used for Mongo collections

Currently (IDS 12.10.FC2X6) when a collection is created in the Informix server the dbspaces used are selected by some automated process. The user has no control where the data or indexes are placed. There should be a config parameter which could ...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Read Only User Group/Role should not allow for use of the export feature

Read only users at CTC of Match360 should only be able to explore and read what exists in Match360, and given the sensitivity of the data, they should never be allowed to export any of the data to a local computer. This is a large risk to the firm...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0

IBM db2 UDB . total number of standby supported in HADR needs to increase it from 3 to more value like datagaurad in oracle

Currently HADR setup support maximum 4 standby including one principle . Why can't it goes like data gaurd in Oracle which support 30 standby
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Modules Packages

Currently users are using data modules to create their own models and one of the available sources to choose from is packages . when user chose 2 different packages ( even if both of them read from the same data source ) local processing will be e...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Amazon Redshift data source

Connection is using the latest jdbc driver RedshiftJDBC42-no-awssdk-1.2.36.1060Client We are looking for support of data type boolean. Importing into FM brings data type in as Int16 and results in error when testing database query subject: 'XQE-DA...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add feature to FLV excel export to include field metadata (allowed values for each field)

When users use FLV to export fastmap template for desired objects, they would like the export to include a row(s) showing the field metadata (e.g. showing the field data type or the list of allowed values for enum fields, etc). This way, when they...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

CDC for Oracle support replicate rowid from source oracle database to target side

CDC for AS400 can replicate RRN from AS400 to target database, OGG can replicate rowid from Oracle to target. CDC for Oracle should support replicating rowid, it is very useful when no primary key in the source table , it can helps data reliable.
almost 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced error information for data modules

Data modules are created and used for extended periods of time without changing and multiple reports are built off them. If a data source is renamed or moved multiple reports fail, however the error message they generate don't point the data modul...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration