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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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Allow for 16 IFI trace outputs to run concurrently

When a program starts a trace that is to go to destination OPX, there are currently only 8 of these that can be run at a time. This can be somewhat constraining (and has at times caused us some issues). Could this limit be bumped to 16 with the de...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

No Option to edit or view the calculated column or row in PAW

Once Calculated column is defined and created on the view in PAW, there is no option available to edit the defined calculation. Even we tried Trace cell option for both consolidated and leaf level cells but could not find what calculation was adde...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Secure Db2 audit trace activation without possibility to stop or modify for Db2 admins

Because of supervisory regulation we need some Db2 audit traces, which are running the whole Db2 runtime at anytime and which cannot be stopped or modified by any Db2 admin IDs (like Install SYSADM, SYSADM, SECADM...).
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Add SID to audit log

Audit logs should have session ID for two main reasons: - Currently there is no way to correlate different entries or operations of the same session. We have PID, but for Java applications this is not presented.- In certain situations it can be us...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Db2 trace data should provide metrics related to usage of SysplexWLB (Workload Balancing) option

On our approach to change all remote connections to Db2 for z/OS into using SysplexWLB (workload balancing) option, we are missing a way to measure our progress here. (i. e. Java applications with property setting enableSysplexWLB=true) We would a...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Update (or better yet remove) the NSS libraries for Windows

I'm creating this "idea" because I had opened a support case with a company called Deltek concerning one of their products that uses Cognos Analytics. Cognos does not properly report its capability to use higher strength TLS ciphers and signature ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

New MDX by Design for PA: Stop MUN uniquely identify members.

In the new world of PA, for PAW or Exploration the system uses MDX and MUN (Member Unique Name). The MUN is essentially the pathway for the TM1 dimension element, following the parent child relationships to the root. In Planning Tools (unlike BI) ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Add ADPATYP field in the ACCOUNTING SAVE file and NEST_ACTIVITY_TYPE column/label to the PDB tables and CSV files

When trying understand what's going on in your system, you typically need to zoom in at the package level at some point. When doing so, it is important to understand what 'type' of package you are dealing with - if it is just a regular program or ...
about 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

DB2 automatic client reroute with pass tickets

The scenario involves pass tickets and automatic client reroute. We have a PMR 86086 442 000 with more details. The response to the PMR indicated that the application needs to be modified to handle the error by reconnecting with a new pass ticket....
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Logging the Google BQ job id in IBM DataStage logs for unique search-ability based on BQ job id

When diagnosing DataStage job failures, especially on the BQ target/source side, it is difficult to trace the problem cause due to the lack of the JobID especially on busy environments. This would be for both the BQ Connector as well as the Simba ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered