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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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Lack of XML support in IDAA

Tables with XML are supported, but the XML columns themselves are not supported by IDAA
over 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Modernizing ADABAS: Optimizing INSERT into Adabas Virtual Tables

One of the key points in a modernization project for a site with Adabas is to “normalize” Adabas Data Model. DVM offers a normalized Data Model for any Adabas file, converting MU/PE fields into auxiliary Tables. This normalization has a cost: you ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Authorization for DROP ALIAS for table or view

We have sort of a CI/CD pipeline for Db2 objects. We sometimes get into trouble when we need to drop an alias for a table or view. To do that you need ownership of the alias or a high privilege. Ownership cannot be changed for aliases without drop...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

NCOS support for GCP

None of the Google Cloud's object storage is supported for customers to move cold data onto a partitioned table. That makes hosting a db2warehouse on Google Cloud very expensive and cost prohibitive. Need native support for GCP
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Future consideration

PDB/CSV support of IFCID 396

Db2 13 for z/OS introduced a new trace record to track long index page splits ( > 1 second). It is expected to be active all the time (part of stats class 3) .Db2 also introduces IX split stats in the RTS tables, and the expectation is that cus...
6 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

OPTIM/HPU INTERFACE CHANGE TO ALLOW USE OF MULTIPLE IMAGE-COPY DATASETS

This is an enhancement request for OPTIM TDM for z/OS (FMID HAEYB70). OPTIM TDM/DP currently allows users to inform only one image-copy dataset (taken in another DB2 subsystem) in the process of extracting and converting data. In our environment w...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Need Functionality to filter Table or view for the Projects MDE results page and catalog overview page.

Need Functionality to filter Table or view for the Projects MDE results page and catalog overview page.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve instance data without connecting to a regular (tenant) database

Several of the in-memory monitoring table functions and views return data which is instance-related. Still, a database connection is needed just for the purpose of having authentication / authorization / connection handle. This requires administra...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve the list of active databases using SQL

Coming from snapshot monitoring, the goal is to use in-memory monitoring and SQL in the least intrusive way to monitor the health of a Db2 instance and its databases. Right now, this is done by connecting to a non-tenant dummy database and running...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for dropdown widget on dashboards

we are looking to set a default value on the dropdown widget canvas or the standard filter and we want that default value to be based on current _month or last_refresh_date from a database table.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration