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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 MDE execution statistics as like MDI in Reporting feature.

In current ICP4D v.4.6.5 reporting feature, after reporting gets established for catalogs/projects, etc. in the target database there is a table for MDI called metadata_import_executions but we didnt fine any similar table for MDE. So the request ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

CDC Should have the ability to better manage source table structure changes.

Currently the recommendation is to stop all DML activity to a source table in DB2 LUW before changing the table structure. In a 24X7 environment this is not practical. Since DB2 is able to handle the change in real time then CDC should be able to.
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Add Runstats Check functionality for DB2 LUW objects (similar to Reorgchk) to determine if a table really needs runstats or not

No description provided
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Optimize querying on model using bridge table

Use of 'SELECT DISTINCT' on the bridge table part of a model is unusable in real life. When you have millions of records, query have low performance
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Drill Through Reports by passing Source Table Name and Filters as the Parameter Value Prompts

Ability to generate Dynamic Drill Through Reports by passing Source Table Name as the Parameter Value Prompts from a Summary Report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Provide archival features to efficiently manage large volume of data within OpenPages

As our data increases to a larger volume ( i.e 700GB ) everyday, it becomes longer and longer to manage the data archival / db2 backup process.Also certain task such as reporting schema rebuild takes large amount of space (i.e 50 GB of db2 log spa...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Lists and crosstabs are imported as image objects in PowerPoint

When importing report contents into PowerPoint, lists / cross tables should also be importable as Images.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix ER: Increase maximum allowed replicates

Our customer uses Enterprise Replication with Informix Server, spanning 530 databases, within 60 instances. We use 11.70 GE. We have hit the maximum limitation of 32746 replicates in the ER domain and it's not enough. We even had to decrease count...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Bi-Temporal support for DB2 AUTH tables

I am asking for bi-temporal AUTH tables, and while I think the plan is to add System Temporal with Cypress on many catalog tables, I'm asking also for Business Temporal. There are a couple reasons for this request, first from a Business Temporal p...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for Management Console

We have run into a situation where we need to have select access on application objects in order to be able to use Management console. However this type of application access is restricted to our 'privileged' IDs, which use 2FA to login. But Manag...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration