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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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DMC Reports vs DSM Reports in Email

1) DSM we are getting an email with the database report attached through email , which was easy for us to SAVE / download directly without logging into DSM console . 2) DMC we are getting an email with the link to DMC console where we need to clic...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Do not start jobs with less than X cores per host

It is useful for when ptiles or slots do not fulfill your needs. Using an example, we have an MPI code that requests 100 cores. We don't tell LSF how to grab those cores, and sometimes it will go out and span across 12 nodes, taking 19 cores on on...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

DB2 V13 REMOVE LOG command - SET LOG REMOVE LOG

Hi, Please could the DB2 V13 command SET LOG REMOVELOG be updated as follows: 1. An option is provided so the the command either works or fails? We want the option to not have REMOVAL PENDING logs in our BSDS after a SET LOG REMOVELOG command is i...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Field value valuation

Possibility to define field value validation across 2 fields that are not enumerated strings.For example:- Currency field 1 > Currency field 2- Date field 1 <= Date field 2- Substring (Simple String field 1) = Substring (Simple String field 2)
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 3 Future consideration

ADB21TC Dropping more than 1 column gets Select only one

ADM only allows dropping one column at a time. You must complete the drop, the revisit the panel again and again to drop all the columns. ADM should allow multiple D entries and one press Enter to handle this.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Json Key Files for Google Big Query Connections have credentials in Clear Text (Not secured)

When creating Google Big Query connection in Cognos Analytics it requires to add the JSON Key file location in the connection string. The JSON key file is stored on the local Cognos dispatchers and the JSON files will have sensitive security infor...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

To support the creation of a Db2 range-partitioned target table if the source table is a Db2 range-partitioned table and the target table does not exist when creating a Q Subscription.

According to the current design, when the target table does not exist, Q Replication can automatically create the target table based on the source table schema when creating a Q Subscription. However, Q Replication always creates a normal table, r...

Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path for RDBMS semi-structured(JSON, BLOB & CLOB) Columns

Problem : Currently Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path doesn't capture the RDBMS data dictionary beyond column level. There are multiple system which save the JSON/BLOB/CLOB into RDBMS columns. Need to have a way to represent the JSON/BLOB/CLO...
12 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Please add a built-in function to reverse a string

Currently to reverse a string, we have to create a udf. The syntax for a simple one was easily available on the SQLTips4Db2 blog .... which IBM has removed. I think Db2 on z has this, and some other variants of SQL out there include it. This is th...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration