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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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Need the ability to define default values for data exception handling

This is for Classic CDC for z/OS V11.3. Currently, replication will fail if it hits a data exception error such as blanks in a numeric field. We do not want replication to end on this type of scenario. There is a parameter, CSDATAVALIDATEACT that ...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Convert DB2 GBK database to GB18030 without database re-creation

SEAC ( State Ethnic Affairs Commission ) issued a new regulation recently. Database codepage GB18030 is required for information systems in sectors of government and public service. DB2 has the limitation of having to re-create database if databas...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Provide consistent interaction model across WDP

Actions from the project list In several places I've noticed that the cursor displays a hand indicating that a click (or double-click) would trigger an action. However this is not always the case. For example, go to the "projects" page: (1) hover ...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Delivered

More than N-1 Coexistence support for IIDR for IMS

We plan to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS to replicate DB updates from Main system to Stand-in system and vice versa.We plan to migrate z/OS and IMS to new version(or release) every 4 years and we want to migrate IIDR at the same time...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Support SAP ASE Unichar / Univarchar datatypes in Sybase EE Stage

Please add support to the DataStage Sybase EE Stage for the SAP ASE Unichar & Univarchar datatypes. These are not new datatypes and were introduced as far back as ASE 12 to support Unicode (UTF16) data in a Sybase ASE server configured with a ...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

DataStage (Unstructured Stage) Append Excel File with Data from a DB2 stage using RCP

This is a CRITICAL feature we need. It has stopped a project. This project is costing DST money and we are going to start looking at alternatives to replace DataStage as the solution!
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Load source columns with data type REAL into data type DOUBLE

Introduce a new knob in the IDAA configuration console (that you open with TSO TELNET 1600): "Load source columns with data type REAL into data type DOUBLE" When adding a table that has columns with data type REAL (float(4)) IDAA maps these column...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Improving the performace of INITIAL LOAD

ABC(Agriculture Bank of China) have implemented A-A based on QREP. Due to its huge number of data volume, the maintenance related to A-A is extreme complex. The more easy operation of QREP the more maintenance convenience.The function of QREP init...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Shipment of FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY (MS-SQL)

When setting the option FETCH_N_ROWS for a remote database of type MS-SQL Server the fetch first rows only statement should be shipped down. Currently this feature is only supported for DRDA and oracle data sources
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Replicate the data into HDFS through Kafka

The current Replication to HDFS through HDFSWeb. It is slow and lack of the ingestion standard. Kafka is the new way, which can standardize the ingestion to HDFS. The following are the reasons:a. can use Avro, which is the good compression algorit...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration