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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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LOCK YES should imply QUISECE YES

Because HPU is not an application program and not a 'true Utility', it does not check all instances of other Utilities for incompatibility. Users will run HPU and other Utilities will that try to start may not see that HPU is running and there cou...
about 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Protect ACI call with program granularity.

Currently you can protect ACI calls adding the resource ACI.Mapname to RACF class. The protection ACI.Mapname protects only the ACI services. When we create a new ACI Stored Procedure we must specify the ACI service we want to use. Suppose we crea...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Functionality already exists

TM1 server name as a function in Turbo Integrator

Hello, It would be good to have a function that returns the TM1 server name (the model name). If not, we need to store it in a system cube, or worse, hard-code it. For example, in a generic TI process for backups, we want to store the backups in a...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Lock table (or database) in exclusive mode does not work as expected in HDR

If one attempts to update a table with many rows in an HDR environment with updateable secondary code like this does not work (if you are on the primary):begin work; lock table mytab in exclusive mode; update mytab set col1="xxx" where 1=1; commit...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Include "Drop unmatched fields" option in the Generic jdbc and Database stages using jdbc

Currently we use the property "Drop unmatched fields" in our jobs to run any SQL's in our database stages which has hard coded values, the option is present in generic odbc and in the native database stages which enables us to use the hard coded S...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

Revert font colours in the Rules and Process Editor

The process editor has recently had an update to the design where the font colours have now changed. The new font colours are hard to distinguish between. For example, previously element names used to be blue and function colours were pink. Now fu...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fastmap (#7) - Import of Business Entity Selector type fields

Import of Business Entity Selector type fields must be possible specifying only the Business Entity Code, and not the complete path (folder).
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Future consideration

Add more date operation in Data Refinery

Currently Data Refinery doesn't have default operation to manipulate date type data. For example, to manipulate date type of field by adding several days to the original fields, we need to use following custom code: mutate(ExpiryDate = as.Date( Pu...
over 3 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Delivered

IBM OpenPages required to retrieve password from CyberArk

To integrate OpenPages with CyberArk Agent for password retrieval, the current OpenPages approach of storing encrypted password on OpenPages server is not acceptable. IBM OpenPages needs to retrieve password from CyberArk Agent on-demand using one...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Delivered