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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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Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

High CPU utilisation in CF structure xxxx_SCA

We have noticed that the structure DB2P_SCA in production the reason for high CPU consumption in the Coupling Facility is. Our reporting proofs this behaviour. We opened a case and did a deeper dive with IBM’s experts into. At the end we can say t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Creating custom URLs to display and run Cognos Analytics content

In Cognos 10.2 its possible to build custom URLs to display and run Cognos content. This has enabled us to build dashboards where pre-run burst report outputs are viewable at a click of a button/link via a webpage. The webpage has links which are ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Register all dependencies in SYSPACKDEP

Today SYSPACKDEP records the dependencies of packages - but not dependencies related to RI. That means that a user or a tool needs to run additional queries to understand all dependencies to e.g. answer the question: which packages do I need to RE...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW: Db2 utility to back up and restore the permissions and ownership values of Db2 files/directories

Requesting Rproduct improvement for Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. Problem description: This RFE solves a problem or deficiency within an IBM database product, Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. The problem is that users (with authority) mistakenly change...
over 8 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Improvements for Automatic Runstats

Auto-runstats (AR) is invoked by health monitor on a fixed timer, each timer 7500 seconds (approx . 2 hours) apart. AR consists of "iterations". In each iteration, AR evaluates tables/views one by one. If a table is deemed needing stats, AR will i...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

WDS highlights should honour Advanced Search quotes

During Project Daisey development, we've come across the inconsistency between highlights returned by WDS and the query. Even if the WDS Query language query contains a compound term (which project daisey uses very frequently for financial terms ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

The query criteria “Store Time” in MER Message List Filter confuses customer and end-user.

System: Message Entry and Repair Facility Actor: End-user Employees of financial institutions can use the Message Entry and Repair (MER) Facility to manually process financial messages. End-user is always using filter function in MER list page to ...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Improved retry handling for FA transfers based on status information

The request is needed since the retry for files in Accepted status is no more needed given that SWIFT retries for 4 hours, if after 4 hours a file is not sent, it means that a huge technical problem is likely affecting the receiver, in this case w...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Db2 HADR PEER status enhancement

We would like IBM to look into adding an additional HADR state once the database comes into PEER. In Db2 10.5, there is an additional parameter, STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP that can hold large amounts of transactions that need to be replayed due to th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration