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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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Support for multi-byte string in the "View data" fnction

"View data" in Oracle Connector failed with error "ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated" when multi-byte string is included in the column referred, although the job execution succeeded.This restriction reduces usability of the product, as...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

CHANGE DATA CAPTURE FOR DB2 z/OS - ONUTILITYACTION parameter

the idea would be to be able to set different values for this parameter ONUTILITYACTION at the subscription level. Today this parameter is set at the CDC agent level. This doesn't allow customers to have different behaviors regarding DB2 z/OS util...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

SSIDEXCLUDELIST - Generic namesc

It would be very helpful to have the possibility to code some generic names in the Classic Change Data Capture for IMS z/OS in the parameter field SSIDEXCLUDELIST. In some cases, customers need to code several hundred or thousands of names which o...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Securing Table Data from DBA Access

We have an application table that stores a quarterly key to encrypt/decrypt data in other tables, and need to protect these keys from DBA access (roque DBA potential). Using PERMISSION and TRUSTED CONTEXT helps some, but data can still be exposed ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists
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Increase the System Limit of 32 Started Traces

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We are exploring using the audit policy traces to handle our audit compliance issue from 2012. According to the Redbook, Security Functions of IBM DB2 10 for z/OS, section 8.1.2, we may only start 32 traces. Reference PMR 79271,082,000.I have conc...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Delivered

Persona based UI, provide information about attributes to users with Help URL

The MDM data model allows to specify a Help URL - This is not currently displayed in the new UI. Please enable this functionality. As a possible enhancement, the help URL field could be renamed to “HTML popup page”, then we could specify the con...
about 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

accept new CASE format insted of PMR or ETR on Capture Query Environment panel when executing ADMIN_INFO_SQL from within Data Studio

accept new CASE format instead of PMR or ETR on Capture Query Environment panel when executing ADMIN_INFO_SQL from within Data Studio
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Prevent ER sync job of deleting records from child table on target

After talk with lab and support group the follwoing became clear: Under certain circumstances ER sync job can delete data from tables even if these tables are not part of the ER system. When a replicated table (target) has an unique index on a non...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Extract Data signon UserName from Data source connections

We want to get the user id that Cognos uses to connect to the reporting Database. I am able to get the credentials from the data source sign on (doing a search on dataSourceSignon) However it is in encrypted form. This is important for management ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 SysAdmins to specify explicit numbers of DIR or DATA entries, as an alternative to RATIO

The Challenge The current mechanism for specifying the number of Directory Entries and/or Data Pages in a Group Bufferpool is the RATIO parameter. This worked well enough when memory sizes were small. With Db2 for z/OS bufferpools in the 10s ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration