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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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Ability to add/remove rows in "Input Data" tables in Model Builder

Use case: I duplicate a scenario in the "Scenarios" panel. The scenario I'd like to test involves adding/removing one data point, e.g. adding a new machine in the predictive maintenance model or taking that machine out of service by removing it. ...

SQL-based hint capability

As we all know are not all access paths optimal, sometimes the optimizer makes a wrong assumptions are maybe all necessary stats are not always available. Therefore it would be beneficial to have an SQL-based syntax, e.g. as a common table express...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Client Application Name (QMDAAPPL from IFCID 0003) used in column RLFEUAN from SYSIBM.DSNRLMTxx tables to governor distributed applications

We would like to use table SYSIBM.DSNRLMTxx (SYSIBM.DSNRLMT01) in order to avoid that certain applications, coming from distributed environment and reaching Db2 for z/OS through DDF, can execute SQL statements. We’d like to completely block these ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 9 Delivered

identify unit of work in insync replication

On the occasions when or replication latency grows beyond our comfort point, we want to know which unit or units of work are driving that latency. We want to know this so that we can either cancel that unit of work or perhaps temporarily drop that...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

possibility to add a column at the partition clause without dropping the table

We would like to have the possibility to modify the PARTITIONING clause without DROPPING the table, with an ALTER COMMAND
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add Ability to Specify Archive Datasets as Input for LAT Scan

A user will run a scan to create an archive file, or several scans over time, each creating a file. When he wants to revisit these, he has found he is only able to specify the start and end times in his window. It seems that LAT will read through ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow partial indexes in all editions

IDS 14.10 contains this important new feature: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_14.1.0/com.ibm.sqls.doc/ids_sqs_partial_index.htm "Partial indexes avoid indexing common values. As the query searching for a common value wil...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

High logging volume on SYSUTILX during utilities execution

Swiss Re observe up to 50% of the log volume is written for SYSUTILX, which is generally updated on phase changes across utilityexecutions, as well as during checkpoint/commit interval. A deeper analysis shows:- Most of the records being logged co...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Option to dictate behaviour regarding deadlock victim selected on deadlocks involving DDL ALTERs

In true 24*7 production environments there is an increasing expectation that simple(on the face of it) DDL changes should be able to break-in concurrent with application workload. In the case of high-arrival rate transactions even at the quietest ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

SQL Views

Information Analyzer provided functionality for so-called SQL Virtual Tables that allowed users to select and join data from different tables on a data source and reuse this view for further analysis and reporting. The customer created thousands o...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered