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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    DB2 LOAD/IMPORT should support z/OS

    With DB2 Connect you can easily execute DDL from a remote workstation to create/modify existing z/OS DB Objects. However, when you need to delete and recreate tables while keeping the data (and ALTER ist not an option) it is necessary to open a TS...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

    new breakthrough clustering algorithm

    I created a new clustering algorithm which can be used with all types of response data which is gathered during consumer tests of product concepts, product prototypes, final products and marketing communication campaigns. My new clustering algorit...
    over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Algorithms 0 Not under consideration

    FORMAT INTERNAL with REORG DISCARD

    REORG with DISCARD does not support FORMAT INTERNAL like UNLOAD and LOAD. REORG with DISCARD is used in many use cases for Archiving OLD data. Having FORMAT INTERNAL in REORG with DISCARD would be good if DISCARD dataset is in INTERNAL format for ...
    about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    z/OS Infosphere Optim - Data Masking - GDPR - New LUA function

    The need is about the data masking and the GDPR constraints. Our développers used the LUA capabilities of z/OS Optim. The needs are convert in a bijective way a numeric chain in a other numeric chain if we run repeatedly a convert with the same ch...
    over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 3 Not under consideration

    z/OS Infosphere Optim - Data Migration : add a DELETE DLI function

    Our SI is mixed DLI and DB2. Therefore, our OPTIM ADS use DLI database and DB2 tables. Before we refresh data, we delete DLI et DB2 data in cohérence. The deletes are only partial [DLI Bases and DB2 tables are not emptied] Optim offer a standard D...
    over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

    Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication

    Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication (IIDR for IMS) in case of failing to continue replication, especially due to inconsistency between source and target DBs. (just like "FULLREFRESH" of II...
    almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

    Enhancement for DB2 z/OS database backup/recovery

    BUSINESS REQUIREMENT Database Recovery is probably the most critical area for DBAs and Application Support teams. As important as new features and performance are, Recovery is absolutely crucial – Production data loss is unacceptable, long databas...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Replicate Timezone portion for timestamp with time zone data type

    IIDRCDC for PostgreSQL Source is relatively new IBM product that replicates data from PostgreSQL database. In this particular scenario, source is PostgreSQL and target is flat file using IIDRCDC Datastage product. Per IIDRCDC datatype support docu...
    over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

    InformationServer Clients ISTOOL "site awareness"

    The ISTOOL is not Active Directory site aware. As a result, the authentication of the multiple ISTOOL commands within the batch job loading metadata into IGC goes across our world-wide cluster of AD servers (including Singapore and London, England...
    almost 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

    Delete Virtual Table Using IAAdmin Command

    Currently there is no way to delete a virtual table using the IAAdmin command or any other IIS API. This is particularly important when we refresh monthly data Virtual Tables to use them as the source for Data Rules / Column Analysis in Production...
    over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

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