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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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Export as Text - View Definition Window

Currently we have a client that is doing ABC/Profitability where different stages of allocations occur. There are a number of different sub-processes that utilises customised views to enable the processing of each row in the caller process. For de...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reading CSV Files with Non-Delimiting Commas

The Var File Source node in Modeler is not able to detect commas within a comma-delimited file that are not delimiters. A comma within a single field would currently cause that field to be read as two fields, and distort all of the data beyond the...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

asntdiff Utility for Other-Vendor Databases that Does Not Require Federation

It is important for customers to be able to validate completeness and consistency of the data replicated by InfoSphere Data Replication (IDR) between source and target. The asntdiff utility performs this function. asntdiff only directly accesses...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Tooll to be able add the Unload Utility and HPU

Have a process to unload test data and load it to another environment. Currently each database has 1 job where the elapsed time is very long. It would be great to have the tool load balance this over multiple jobs.
about 6 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Internal hash tables - remove limit on amount of data.

As per case TS006348841 currently internal hash tables have a limitation on the amount of data that can be copied into the internal hash table "At the end all the rows/columns must be copied into a hash table. And this is too much data." E.g. A gr...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Accelerated/NOT Accelerated node to Access Plan Graph when IDAA plug in is NOT installed

When setting query acceleration = enable; externalize the data in DSN_QUERYINFO_TABLE by adding an Accelerated/NOT Accelerated node to Access Plan Graph when IDAA plug in is NOT installed - as is included when the plug in is installed
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Rule output for not applicable rows (not part of DRD scope) should not be treated as "met"

Currently N/A (filtered out) rows that are not in scope of a certain data rule (definition) display status as "met". We would like to be able to toggle whether to include or exclude N/A rows from rule results while creating the rule. So as an exam...
about 4 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Replicate character for bit data data from mainframe as binary to Kafka

The customer has data on the mainframe that is binary and should appear in Kafka without conversion. Other customers will also have binary data that does not need conversions.
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Support of IBM DB2 Data Server Driver Package (instead of DB2 Data Server Client)

Support of the different DB2 Data Server Driver Packages instead/in addition to DB2 Data Server Client. The big advantage is, that the Driver Packages are much smaller and also easier to install. Also they don't need any additional DB2-User.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration