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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Manta SAP HANA scanner to support calculation view

Why it is useful? Calculation view are widely used in SAP HANA applications. There are a few key tables that get loaded via stored procedures and those stored procedures loads data from several calculation views and/or nested calculation view. Wit...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 6

Turn on reclaimable storage without dropping/recreating the tablespaces

After a migration from db2 9.5 to 10.1, several days passed, and we reached the maximum size of a DMS tablespace of 4K. We moved one table to a different tablespace, but still noticed that the free pages were equal to 0. We tried to execute the al...
over 10 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Adding a search box for IMS Definitions when creating Virtual Tables

Currently, when creating IMS Virtual Tables, users must select a DBD and PSB from a dropdown list. However, since these follow a naming convention, finding the correct DBD or PSB can be time-consuming and inefficient. To improve usability, I propo...
8 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Reset the serial value in the partition page if the table no longer has a serial column

If you want to check whether a serial value is close to its maximum value, it is very unpleasant that tables that no longer have a serial value or whose serial value has been changed to a Serial8 or BigSerial value still have the last value in the...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Sizing of crosstab and tables in dashboards

You should make customization of text in crosstabs and tables in Dashboarding possible. Right now they often take way too much room when included in dashboards. Would really like to be able to set font size, padding and other so the tables could b...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

performance improvement for specific replication instance

Need improve deleting synchronization performance for big table with wide unique key column: We see latency keep increasing to 2 hours when batch deleting happen on big table which has ~1 billion rows and unique key includes 11 columns. More detai...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Table-Level QMAP Properties for Automated Q Replication Management

In modern, automated database environments, schema changes and table deployments are often managed via CI/CD pipelines using metadata or declarative configuration. Currently, registering and deregistering tables with the correct source and target ...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Under review
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Obtain the query plan of a running query

Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.Sometimes it's hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Delivered

Number value field type in Questionnaire Template

We are in the process of creating a questionnaire assessment for the quarterly review of application assets. While we have designed the template, we are encountering challenges in creating a question as a number type. Currently, in OpenPages, we h...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Under review

I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
12 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review