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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.

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Repair DBD Utility wont abend with dump while trigger found on a none existing table

regular running check repair DBD on systems. repair dbd abends when a database was found with triggers pointing on tables objects that does not existist any longer.
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PIVOT/UNPIVOT functions in DB2 for z/OS

Currently, the DB2 for z/OS SQL does not support any functions for PIVOTING / UNPIVOTING data. This results in extremely complex SQL whenever a matrxi/cross tab report is required. Such reports are very common in open systems databases.
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM Infosphere CDC to support the remote journal in the same iSeries Lpar

This is Shane from HSBC. We selected IBM Infosphere CDC for real-time data replication from iSerise to Oracle in Linux. Background/Pain-points: Our system in iSeries uses single journal for all database, which associated more than 40K files. Du...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Journal Control Field &USER not filled correctly within Oracle dbms_scheduler

We use the journal control fields within IDR. Especially the &USER field. Our whole archiving solution is based on that Means we delete data with a certain Oracle USER like REPL_ASRV on a global Oracle database and the data is really deleted i...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Change PWD in Data Sources without redeploying application

When creating a datasource in the Studio tool for the purpose of pulling data from an external relational database to populate a scenario, the system requires that the connection information for the external RDB (including the password) be provide...
almost 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Oracle connector support for AWS RDS

A lot of our source systems are moving to AWS RDS for Oracle. We use datastage 11.7 to read from these source systems and load our datawarehouse also an RDS Oracle database.
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

implementation of a “ADMIN ALTER TABLE TB1 INSERT COLUMN C AFTER B” functionality

AHA request for Db2 Administration Tool We are using another vendors DB2 database management solution and have developed a fully automated batch process which propagates DDL changes to many DB2 for z/OS DB2 systems. Our application developers use ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Informix HTML datatype support across distributed queries

The type of HTML is not widely supported by other APIs other than WebDatablade. Therefore, when a query is made within a distributed query system, where user is inside database db1, and query with html column is made for database db2, below error ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

A tmp database created with the server, analogous to the /tmp file system

In Linux systems (and in all Unix flavors) there is a /tmp directory or better, a /tmp file system. Anyone can create a file or directory in there and, in Linux, it cleared at boot time. (Other flavors use a cron job to clear out unused files.) I ...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

import MON_GET_ROUTINE_DETAILS

Whereas having the MON_GET_ROUTINE data is nice, there are times where you need to get the detail data for the various time slices to truly understand the issue on a system. The biggest issue is seeind the data summarized at the database level in ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted