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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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Referential Integrity for Real-time Statistics Tables (RI for RTS)

OVERVIEW: The RTS tables do not have DB2-enforced RI. The DB2 component that handles the maintenance of this data can encounter certain failures that can result in obsolete/invalid/orphaned data in the table(s). By the way, this is more prevalent ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Submit sub-groups

In Cognos Controller it's possible to submit (close) company reporting for a specific closing version, defined in general configuration. In larger groups next step is often, closing of groups/subgroups (including other journal types than the compa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Error to be displayed when saving a rule with feeders but not skipcheck

We recently experienced the following issue: A manual action made the skipcheck code disappear at the top of our code. We saved the rule without receiving any error and then closed it. This change resulted in big performance issues of our service ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increase Source Code and Source Name Length in IBM MDM SE

We are in middle of migrating our MDM system from one of the other Vendor to IBM InfoSphere MDM Standard Edition. There are some source codes which are of length greater than 12 characters and source names which are off length greater than 40 char...
almost 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Improve performance of writing data to Scenario DB

As per our analysis DOC uses JDBC "batch insert" method when writing data to Scenario Database. A much faster method would be "multiple row insert", which can also be done with JDBC. The following link shows how to do it in Java. The author measur...
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Allow Session Scheduler to support the queue level Job Starter when the Session Spreads to Multiple Hosts

In testing of Session Scheduler, it works perfectly, on secondary hosts, it does not seem to respect our job starter which will limit our ability to deploy Session Scheduler more broadly. Closing this gap is important.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Please rebrand "SQL PL" to "SQL PSM" or "SQL/PSM"

Hi, as we know Db2 supports the SQL PSM standard really closely and in the only mainstream database to do this. However, your Knowledge Center is confusing because the name given to SQL PSM in Db2 is SQL PL. Because Db2 also supports Oracle PL/SQL...
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Enable Alter Key for HPSS Archive on Partition Level

With IIAS 7.5.2 a new HPSS function was enabled . This function is the option to change the Organizing Key of an already archived table using ALTER KEYS. Although this improves our current situation the drawback of this solution is that ALTER KEYS...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

form Lock enhancement

Currently on every monthly closing we need to run DB optimization for form lock issue and waste lot of closing time
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration