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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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Global Timestamp

Currently in OpenPages there is only one timestamp for sign-off. I work at a global Japanese Bank and the timestamp is configured for the Tokyo Time zone. This means that if someone in New York Signs-off on a workpaper after lunch, it will show a ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 1 Not under consideration

Change behavior of option PARALLEL(0) for REORG TABLESPACE

We had a problem recently when a reorg of a tablespace with 100 partitions consumed far too much real storage. We ran the reorg with PARALLEL(0) and it choose to use 188 parallel tasks. That was probably OK at the beginning of the execution but no...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Optimize extraction of LOB data

CDC source agent currently extracts LOB values with the following type of queries:* SELECT "C5_CLOB" FROM "REPL"."STAB1" t WHERE ROWID = :v0.This means that for each extracted LOB there needs to be a single execution of a query.Small LOBs, which a...
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

IDS 12.10 syspurge enhancement

Description: We are experiencing locking errors during IBM Informix Dynamic Server syspurge causing a failure to complete syspurge specifically with tables using interval fragmentation. We understand that currently IBM cannot guarantee that there...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improved filtering in CP4D Monitoring (sliding window in time)

We’re very happy with the added Monitoring capabilities in CP4D 4.6.2, which go a long way to cover our Monitoring needs. However, in order to be more independent of additional custom-developed monitoring to be exposed via Grafana, it would be use...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Manage DSNX881I messages in DB2 generated from IDAA healthcheck report

Each time the IDAA healthcheck runs (multiple times a day) every DB2 connected to the box reports on all the problems including all the issues already reported previously but not yet fixed. This can mean a hundred or more emails generated daily by...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RedHatEnterprise 7.2+ x86-64 tested and supported with IIS 11.3.1.2?

Hi,we need to know if it is possible to run IIS 11.3.1.2 on RedHat 7.2+, since we have stakeholders coming in on new servers built on that OS level. And OS team will not have the servers running on release 6 any longer. That means we might have to...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration