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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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304 VLDB - Altering Indexes to Change PIECESIZE Not Online

Change the PIECESIZE of indexes puts the index in rebuild pending status. We need the ability to increase the PIECESIZE where index compression alone is not sufficient to scale an index.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Adding new values to CHECK Constraints should not put Table in CHECK PENDING

There are many instances today when existing CHECK Constraints have to be modified to add additional values. Currently, making any modifications to CHECK Constraints to add or remove values requires that the Constraint be dropped and re-created. T...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

XML input and output decommission

One challenge my client is facing with IBM Cloud Pak for Data is native features have been decommissioned, such as XML input and output. Too many changes have been made, and my client has around one hundred thousand mappings, so their team has bee...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] /etc/init.d/ego status overiding default behavior - not according to standard, breaks monitoring and automation tool chain

The init.d script being rolled out with Symphony 7.1.0 is the same across all compute and management hosts. Running the script in its intended way with the status flag always results in the same message: -bash-4.1$ sudo service ego statusego servi...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Password encryption on QMF Server and Data Virtualization Manager and the JDBC driver.

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 QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Simple Configuration & Health script that reports high-level database metrics

The purpose of a simple Configuration & Health script is to provide DBAs with a high-level view of macro database metrics that could suggest specific areas worthy of further investigation. The report would include these components as follows: ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Bulk unlock records and Bulk cancel checkout of attachments

We have a lot of records where end users have put a lock on records and when a bulk folder move is requested, administrators have to manually go on each record and unlock it before we can perform folder move function on the grid. This can be in th...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

DB2Z-Allow for EXCHANGE DATA function on Clone table to NOT put packages in VALID status of 'A'

We have processes that use the clone table feature to allow for non disruptive load operations. When we do the exchange data the packages on the primary table move to a VALID STATUS of 'A' when they had a status of 'Y' previously. This creates iss...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ability to distribute policies to specific catalogs

Today to have the capability of Policies and rules a user must purchase the Pro edition of Knowledge Catalog. What I anticipated was since I purchased Pro was, I would create a "dev" catalog, a "test" catalog and a "production" catalog. I would us...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Allow Cancelling of Run Process Threads

Threads started by using RunProcess in a TI cannot be cancelled when using the Admin tool in Planning Analytics Workspace. We use the RunProcess to enable multi-threading of some of our load processes. We had the system go into wait mode because o...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists