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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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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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IDAA's support of CAST function for Unicode to EBCDIC conversion.

1. Product: IDAA Version 32. Actor: Customers who want to accelerate their EBCDIC query applications and tables using IDAA. 3. Description: Netezza stores data in Unicode UTF-8. Currently we can 'add' and 'load' DB2 for z/OS EBCDIC tables to IDAA,...
about 13 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

IDAA's support of recursive SQL syntax.

1. Product: IDAA Version 32. Actor: Manufacturing customers who have “Parts” table which uses hierarchical navigation, using DB2 for z/OS. 3. Description: At this moment recursive SQL syntax ( recursive common table expression ) is not support...
about 13 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow Additional Predicate Consideration to a Spatial Search for Enhanced Selectivity and Performance

Add support to the spatial index definition/management logic to allow the definition of the ST_POINT spatial index in conjunction with other columns. This very common compound index approach would enhance performance by cutting down on GETPAGES at...
about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Return to asset context user left off

Currently when reopening a project the user directly sees the project tab contextually related to the last opened project page, in particular: Assets tab (All asset mode) when Assets or an Asset page was last open Jobs tab when Jobs or a Job page ...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Delivered

Unavailability of ErrorMessage in ZOS Connect

We are creating webservices off of ADABAS using DVM and exposing those using ZOS Connect. My aim is to throw appropriate http error code as the case maybe when an error is encountered. I believe there is no way to do it and we have to interpret th...
11 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Remove dependency on legacy library libnsl.so.1

Most recent Linux' OS' do not provide an easy way to create a dynamic support for libnsl.so.1 any longer and instead they link to libnsl.so.2* due to libnsl.so being symbolically linked to libnsl.so.2*. The library libnsl.so.2 de-contented several...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Monitor the index clean up process without starting a trace.

I would like to be able to monitor the DB2 for z/OS index cleanup process without starting a DB2 trace. Please could you do one or all of the following: 1. Create a DB2 command, -DISPLAY INDEXCLEANUP, to externalize the same information that IF...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CDC for DB2 LUW - Refresh "RS" record is out of order - add DB2 Parameter CPU_PARALLELISM in CDC

When performing a Refresh to a DB2 LUW Target, then there is a record with Entry Type "RS" written to the target table, before the data records follow up with Entry Types "RR" only. The background of the first artificial "RS record" is to be able ...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

blusers improvement to show both external and hoarding jobs in one listing

Hi, I didn't find an option in "blusers" command that will give me the full list of jobs that use specific license token. There are two options available, each gives partial picture and the output is in different format. So it takes unnecessary e...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

Informix HQ Enhancement

When using out of the box sensors, or creating your own custom sensor, it would be helpful to have the ability to specify a time of day to run the sensor. A real world example. Our software give customers the ability to create their own queries. W...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration