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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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Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ------...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Provision to allow the users to enter the partition and clustering keys for Partitioned tables in BQ and Apache Cassandra

Customer (and anyone using Google BigQuery) Google's BigQuery and Apache Cassandra support Partitioned tables . To retreive the data from these tables performantly , one needs to provide the Partition key and the Clustering Key. So, when the parti...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Environment Runtimes

User groups have a need to monitor the number of hours used by the Data Scientists using Watson Studio. Currently, the only way to get this data is by having Administrative rights to the Cloud account. This is not something that can be freely prov...
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Include EXIT_REASON as field in lsf_job_status index

Clear EXIT reason for all exited jobs is not present in lsf_job_acct index. There are already present fields like except_mask, exit_info, exit_status in lsf_job_acct through which we can calculate exit_reason but doing it at visualization layer ne...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Need the ability to see the SQL used in creating the 'View'(Data Asset) as part of View metadata.

Customer needs to see the query (SQL) used in creating a View from one or more tables as part of the View's Metadata in the Catalog.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Need filters for tables, Views and Connections while displaying Search results

Competitive functionality - Currently when a search is performed, the assets like Tables, Views, Connections are bucketed under 'Data' filter option on the left pane. The customer needsw to have separate filters for Tables, Views and Connections s...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Unique DB2 Message To Indicate That GRECP and LPL Recovery Is Complete And There Are No More Objects Flagged As GRECP or LPL

We are using GDPS automation to drive our disaster recovery processes and we have been running into a number of problems with LPL and GRECP recovery due to contention during startup of data sharing groups. This in turn causes failures when MQ shar...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Salesforce Connector - Support for Bulk API on Queries

Currently the InfoSphere Information Server Pack for Salesforce.com only supports the Real Time API for querying data. Please can support be introduced for the Bulk API to improve the performance of large data extracts.
over 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to add custom attributes to reference data

I have a customer BCBS of MN who would like to create custom fields for reference data. This will allow them to store more items than the standard out of the box fields.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

WKC needs to handle Complex Data Types

Just like how we process and use Integer, Char Data and other data types. Customer wanted to process Complex data Type(Array, Map,Struct, Union). So when I run MDI and MDE, it can work with Complex data Type too. Need to get the full list from the...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration