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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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Improved LATCH when index splitting

[Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automate Nonprofit Grant Writing Workflow

As someone working with a small nonprofit team, I’d love to see IBM watsonx Orchestrate provide a pre-built automation flow specifically for grant writing. Writing and managing multiple grant applications takes time we don’t always have, and autom...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Connection Manager should check if a secondary server is in sync before allowing connections to that server

When you have a primary and a secondary both server are in sync. But if you need to stop one of them for maintenaince reasons then it becomes out of sync. When you start it again the server might be so many log ahead and need to sync but the serve...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

watsonx.data - Confluence connector for watsonx.data Premium, web crawler and MCP server

The client has delineated 3 requirements to be able to proceed with PoC - 1. Confluence Connector for watsonx.data Integration Client requires a Confluence (on-prem) connector to enable ingestion into watsonx.data Premium. Lack of connector exclud...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Request access to data from within Data Asset

Users need to be able to request access to the data from within the data asset page. All metadata is currently visible but there is no way for a user to request access to the data.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance availability of readahead performance details

With the ubiquity of intelligent storage, the value of readahead in the Informix server is reduced and excessive readahead can be detrimental to performance. However, since the introduction of the AUTO_READAHEAD parameter and the associated change...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Infosphere CDC for Db2® for z/OS - A new option like "alter_table_data_capture_flag_allow_turn_off"

We have tables in simultaneous replication with different products: CDC and SQL Replica both from IBM.Unfortunately, the CDC Z/OS does not have the ‘alter_table_data_capture_flag_allow_turn_off’ parameter that the ‘remote z/os source’ does and the...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Read all SQL statements from dynamic statement cache

Storage areas in DB2 become bigger and bigger, so does the dynamic statement cache. When reading the DSC data with the IFI function READS (IFCID 316) the possibility to get an RC 00E60833 increases, when specifying a return area that is large enou...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

PULSAR Support AS target database

We have an Event HUB project in progress. The responsible team have choosen to replicate data from IBM DB2 to PULSAR using KAFKA protocol via IIDR Remote capture as architectural design. We implemented this in test environment and we will move to ...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration