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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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Provision summary report on data archival processing

An enhancement or a new menu is needed in Optim to generate and show a report on archival and deletion processing summary so far OR based on some filters. Below is the business case. Requirement : Customers have been using the Optim based archi...
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Use SP DSNUTILU with IDAA LOADER SERVER.

We tried to use WLM stored Procedure DSNUTILU to run HLV Loader instead of DSNUTILB with JCL without successful. We opened PMR 16347,250,631 to treat this issue and we was informed that is not is possible, then at this moment we can not use IDAA L...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Use SP DSNUTILU with IDAA LOADER SERVER

We tried to use WLM stored Procedure DSNUTILU to run HLV Loader instead of DSNUTILB with JCL without successful. We opened PMR 16347,250,631 to treat this issue and we was informed that is not is possible, then at this moment we can not use IDAA L...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

MDM CE NEW UI - Needing of the "Actions" button of multi-edit links redirected from the Custom Tools and Entry Previews

The users are needing the "Actions" button to perform different tasks on items that are resulted from the redirect. 1. What is the use case for Custom Search Tool which cannot be fulfilled using the Search Menu provided with New UI ? The users are...
almost 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Remove list of Recent Projects listed in FM welcome screen

In a multi-tenancy (shared) environment for Framework Manager, allow the need to remove the list of Recent Projects (files) listed on the Welcome Screen. Currently the default setting is 4: <Preference Name="RecentProjectListSize">4</Pref...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Not under consideration

Simplified compression dictionary management and its availability for CDC tables

Hello, we would need a simplified compression dictionary management.Currently, Db2 permanently stores the compression dictionaries for compressed tablespaces in: 1. the dictionary pages in the tablespaces and image copies, 2. the Db2 log after REO...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow columns to be deleted when creating Virtual Tables

During the creation of Virtual Tables, there will be scenarios where some columns should be excluded. Allowing this choice during creation would be much better than editing the VT afterwords. This is especially important when certain columns are c...
about 7 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provision to carry out DML activities

1. Grants_On_Table/View 2. GRANT_EXECUTE_PLAN 3. GRANT_EXECUTE_PROCEDURE 4. GRANT_USE_ON_TABLESPACE 5. Grant Sequence
over 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Mutli-cube table

(Please refer to the file for detailed screenshots) In the following example, we want to create a book in which end-user can define a mapping for an allocation. We wish here to allocate Shared Adv & Marketing Expenses (from Europe Mkt services...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration