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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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Auto create table or prompt tp create tables based on content in object storage bucket.

Add a function to crawl configured buckets for files which can be configured or registered as an available table and surface these as a task to approve or reject. The crawler will be smart enough to understand the connector/catalog type and what c...
about 2 years ago in watsonx.data 0 Delivered

Selective suppress zero function based on a specific table attribute

The user should be able to select a specific table attribute to be considered in zero suppression. Today the zero rows are suppressed only if all the values of the row are equal to zero. Tomorrow we'd like to allow the user to select a specific ta...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Resolve issue where DB2 has an issue with invalid MDSNxx Class profiles created in RACF

IBM Please read the case TS013914362. In summary DB2 created dumps/abends when the RACF administrator deleted permissions to some incorrectly formatted profiles in one of the MDSNxx classes. When the administrator performed the permit delete and i...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Embed IFF-File into WSL

We run the Compare on an integration test system and transport the created workstatement list in Converted format (action_convert_to_read_wsl = 'Y' ) to each target system. There, we make any necessary adjustments, e.g. to the schema or the databa...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Avoid lock table on full refresh process

We have been contracting the IIDR for z/OS a long time but just Q Replication was used until 2 months ago, so when we started to use the CDC for DB2 with target CDC Kafka in development environment we see that a lock table in source table is done ...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

While the remote replication is active, there is a database-level lock

Hello, this is Hakan from Garanti Bank. We have been using the cdc very long time. Lately, we tried the remote replication method to reduce the mainframe cpu cost. It was running perfect; however, there existed never-ending db locks. Supposing tab...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Enhancement request - IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Redshift Connector

Hi IBM team, Kindly find an enhancement request for - IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Redshift Connector Problem: Using IBM Cloud Pak for Data –Redshift Connector (with WRITE MODE=LAOD), empty source tables are not getting loaded to target AWS-Redshift ....
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Show a status for Replication on the ADM "AT" screen

It should be easy to identify tables that are Disabled for Replication. The user can go to the KEYS screen one table at a time, so see status like this: Status for table . . : TECH.TBASP_ALERT_HISTRY Acceleration status : 1 Load status : Loaded Re...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Externalize dictionary information using ADMIN_GET_TAB_DICTIONARY_INFO for BLU tables

BUILDER,BUILD_TIMESTAMP,SIZE,ROWS_SAMPLED and are important information to be able to determine how good a dictionary might be.
over 7 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

More consistent handling of .csv data when manually duplicating/creating scenarios

Problem statement/pain points: When creating a new scenario via duplicating an existing one manually (not using Python code), there appear to be currently two ways to make a change to input data in a table of the new scenario: 1) change data direc...