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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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Improve speed and stability of Controller when have large numbers company locks (XACCLOCK table)

If a customer has a complicated company structure (e.g. with many different actualities) then after they create company locks for all their periods/actualities, XACCLOCK becomes absolutely enormous For example, one of our customers has 22 million ...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

Access to Oracle table from Natural

Natural can access an Oracle table published in DVM, this is done through a CALL type call in Natural, GISS wants DVM to provide an Adabas view for this table, this is the equivalent of the jdbc interface for open systems.
10 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

UTILITY CHECK DATA ENHANCEMENT

We would like to add feature to the CHECK UTILITY to support list of tabelspaces that are in CHECK-PENDING status to be checked. In a case we have some tables in CHECK-PENDING status and the tables have RI we need to know the connection between th...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

Wrong result from reading Business Temporal Tables with CURRENT TEMPORAL BUSINESS_TIME set to a non-NULL value

When reading Business Temporal Tables we set a value for the special register CURRENT TEMPORAL BUSINESS_TIME in order to get the appropriate result. If it is NULL all rows are read. If it is not NULL only rows for the specified timestamp should be...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 STANDBY REPLAY DELAY caused by Offline reorg

IBM case: TS008415413 When an OFFLINE REORG is submitted on Primary, the REPLAY on STANDBY (both Principal and Auxiliary) applies the transactional logs till the BUILD phase. When the reorg moves to recreate or updates the INDEXES, the REPLAYS sto...
over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Case TS000932532 - Load should be able to bypass a GENERATED-ALWAYS-from-variable column

ProblemA load on a table containing a certain type of GENERATED ALWAYS column fails with the very odd message "Unexpected load gencol section".Research pointed out that LOAD cannot handle in any way a GENERATED ALWAYS column getting its informatio...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Bulk replace option

Problem: After Selecting Tables from a DB. You want to format and rename some of the labels. Most DB use a _ of other prefixes. For now there is no other GUI option to select multiple items and rename or search and replace texst items like _ or ot...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Forecast NPS resource usage based on cyclops influxdb database tables solely

NPS resource usage need to be forecasted after a period of time (NPS on Cloud, NPS on Premise). Influxdb gathers data which may be used w/o the need to install and run Query History Database. Use influx timeseries and ML capabilities to provide th...
almost 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Planned for future release