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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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Enhance RECOVERY utility to use information in a Safe Guarded Copy snapshot as recovery base for Db2 object level recovery

We do a Safe Guarded Copy (SGC) every 2 hours. The ongoing value for SGC is for now primarily as an insurance for a CyberAttack by providing a last good copy. The idea is 'simply' - although I know there is likely nothing simple in this - to be ab...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improved functionality for tablespace fast pre-allocation

My customer is experiencing huge performance problems due to Tablespace Pre-allocation (DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION).At this time, IOCP Timeout occurs in Db2 and many tossbuffers occur in GPFS.This customer has been struggling with this problem for...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 6 Future consideration

Automatic Table Partition Creation and Purging Based on Date Expressions

I propose the addition of a native feature in Db2 LUW for automatic table partition management based on a date or timestamp column. Specifically: Automatic Partition Creation: Allow users to define partitioning expressions (e.g., daily, monthly, y...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

TM1 Data Snapshot functionality - Copy rule to values in a TM1 cube

The Bedrock data copy TI process is the most basic requirement for a in memory solution. The highest priority would be to achieve this outcome. The following additional requirements would be nice to have on top of the basic requirement: 1. The abi...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow to choose which reports can be added to the panel on the shared between different lines of business dashboard

So far there are only 2 options to choose which report can be added to the panels on the dashboard: 1. all reports as a tree of all published reports 2. profile reports As soon as the profile can be shared between different lines of business, they...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Planned for future release

Fix Download of Manta exports when the export is large

Background When a user exports a large repository, the workflow completes successfully and the export text files are generated. However, downloading the resulting ZIP file often fails initially due to a timeout enforced by the load balancer (which...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta COBOL scanner should support Assembly code.

Manta COBOL scanner fails with parsing error when it encounteres assembly code. There are two ways to resolve this. 1. Refactor the assembly code to COBOL program (Manual approach) 2. Add support for assembly code in Manta COBOL scanner Option #2 ...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

Enhance DSN1COMP to provide more information on LOB's

There is a need to have a greater handle on LOB columns with regard to their size and storage. At the moment the only way to analyse the lengths of the LOBs is through using expensive SQL with BIF LENGTH and SUBSTR. It really only possible to do s...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

onmode -I <error No> should have an optional flag to automagically turn off the trapping

Real world, intermittently I see a 208 error from the app layer, typically in batches of 100 or so and normally at inconvenient times. This would allow me to set the onmode -I and walk away until the error trips and not having the server swamped w...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Getting the Accessplans at the Routine level for the Database LUW

Db2 performance issues in one of the major area to look for, Whenever there is performance issue in the database, one of the major point we look is for the queries how they are behaving in the database. Db2 LUW provides lot of options to get the a...
over 6 years ago in Db2 29 Not under consideration