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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.

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Change to memory management algorithm

We use Change Data Capture in several project in our company.We identified a serious problem regarding memory management algorithm. Once a week we have a batch of jobs performing many modifications to replicated tables. This workload is characteri...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Allow advanced graph filtering

- Allow multi selection in the graph inventory to hide programs / tables / ...- Allow filtering arrows by direction
almost 9 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Not under consideration

Support compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs without an active DB2 connection

The compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs on the z/OS mainframe is possible without an active database connection.This does not work on the AIX platform, which requires a database connection during compilation and a DB user withsufficient privile...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Make table active on iSeries without data loss

When the user changes the status of a table to active with Mark Table Capture Point in GUI, mark capture point in chcclp or System i command SETMIRSTS (*ACTV), a marker is posted to the journal and all unreplicated transactions between the end poi...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Change in DSNTIAD code in order to get an abend in case of embedded comments

Our application developers use DSNTIAD to UPDATE tables also in the production environment. If they run a query with DSNTIAD and a comment embedded we'd like the job to abend.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 316 needs counter for tablespace scans on user tables only

Customers tool uses QW0316NT that is showen as tablespace scans. This counter does not only include scans on user tables but also on workfiles.. QW0316NT (or STAT_RSCN) intentionally includes scans of all workfiles... not only workfiles used for s...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Identify Flat File - Import of CSV using headers or file sample / also in batch manner

Right now my understanding is there are 2 ways to import csv files. The file connector and the Information Analyzer identify flat file. The file connector is cumbersome because i have to describe every column 1 by 1 and it is not really feasible w...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Performance degradation after enabling RCAC

Performance degradation and difference in behavior of access plan on stored procedure query after enabling RCAC - column masking for a column which is part of select condition. The query access plan without RCAC is scanning only the table (Table A...
about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add View Support to temporal time tables

Add support for views to tables which contain both SYSTEM and BUSINESS TIME. For single table views, please limit restrictions on ISRT / UPDT so that the view can be utilized in much the same manner as any other view.
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IDAA - DBCS character errors on IDAA table after loading data

Converting Service Request 53184,L6Q,000 to an RFE. When EBCDIC DBCS characters are loaded to an IDAA table on a MIXED=YES subsystem, the double width space character x'4040' is converted to x'FEFE' for GRAPHIC and VARGRAPHIC columns. This causes ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration