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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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Retrieve IDAA trace data in background

In Admin Tool you can retrieve trace data for the accelerator using Z;AC and then line command TR. We would prefer to do that using Admin Tool instead of Data Studio. But there is a problem. The process run in foreground mode so the ISPF session i...
12 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Batch ATF Reporting

Allow the input of ATF VSAM records for running OMPE Batch SQL Activity Trace reports
4 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Observability Improvements inline with cloud principles and SRE capabilities.

Current IIDR (CDC) needs CHCCLP to be run periodically to pull the monitoring metrics and use IIDR (CDC) Management Console for monitoring visualisation which is 80's or 90's era thinking. At enterprises, we use different observability tools and w...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 5 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

Increase field and column for WORKSTATION_TRAN and CLIENT_APPLNAME

We would like that CQM’s “WORKSTATION TRAN” field and the corresponding column “WORKSTATION_TRAN” in the CQM_SUMM_METRICS table can span the full name. The CLIENT_APPLNAME in DSN_STATEMNT_TABLE is declared varchar(255) FOR MIXED DATA and that woul...
10 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Write JGate messages to Trace Browse

When using JGate we currently need to look in multiple logs in order to put together a complete picture of what happens during a given transaction. We would like for JGate to have the ability to write messages back to the trace browse on the calli...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Limit access to stop audit traces

We suggest that audit traces including class 11 can only be stopped be authids authorized to access the Db2 audit policy profile by a z/OS® security product. For compliance reasons (e.g. PCI DSS), we need to be able to document activities perf...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Externalize high water marker for EDM pool in Db2 trace on Db2 V12

This stat is useful and required to tune EDM pool appropriately. This would be useful for DB2 systems programmer and DB2 Performance Teams. We had a case opened and the decision is to externalize this feature only with v13. It would be great to ha...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

System Audit log - Failed login attempts

The idea would be to add functionality to record failed login attempts in the system audit log in Cognos Controller. It would be beneficial to have this shown in the audit log because this would strengthen the security of the application and the p...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Using Aliases or Language Localization for dimensions in Trace cell window in PAW/PAX

Ability to chose Dimension Alias for building Trace calculations formulas or\and using Planning Analytic's localization functionality to generate formula's descriptions based on end-user language
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration