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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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Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Check log files during log archival

To detect as early as possible that there are storage issues or file system issues in log dir, checking the checksum of log files during log archival would help to identify issues early, fix the issue and allow to take a new backup to get database...
over 7 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

need SQL tuning component

Now, we are using DSM to manage 235 sets of Db2 databases, of which SQL tuning is a more commonly used function for our system administrators and DBAs. We often use the SQL tuning function to optimize the SQL statements running in the production e...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Embed IFF-File into WSL

We run the Compare on an integration test system and transport the created workstatement list in Converted format (action_convert_to_read_wsl = 'Y' ) to each target system. There, we make any necessary adjustments, e.g. to the schema or the databa...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Passphrase support for JDBC Type-2 Connection to DB2/zOS

System: Db2 z/OSActor: New Feature: Type-2 JCBC-Connection with passphrases support. In some cases we have to use Type-2 JDBC database connection along with passphrases. Actually, this feature is currently not supported as we tested following setu...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered
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Watson Studio add the ability to schedule a job from a Git projects

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Today, this can only be run. When the project is in a Git project, it cannot be scheduled. In most cases, the customer would be running from the main branch. This customer is migrating from Watson Studio Local to CP4D and one of the items that is ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 2 Delivered

Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

Improve the way HADR retrieve light scan on standby deals with failures such as DISK FULL

When DB2 HADR Standby is behind 2-3TB, it retrieves all files from archives to active log file system and makes the file system full. Standby replays one log file at a time and hence, retrieving thousands of files ahead slows down the replays, mak...
over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Making the real-time stats externalization optional

The Automation Tool issues the ACCESS DATABASE(*) SPACE(*) MODE(STATS) command whenever the REALTIMESTATS option is used in an exception profile. This default behavior causes some problems: Since the ACCESS command is issued to every DB and TS in ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Encrypt password in the DVM JDBC Gateway credential management system

Royal Bank of Canada and likely other customers have the following need. With DVM and the QMF Server and the JDBC Gateway the credential management system of Globals and the AVZDRATH job will be a security\auditing issue. 1) If the users are mappe...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered