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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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Add IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) support to IBM Optim for on z/OS

Many z/OS customers deploy IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) dataset encryption to protect their sensitive PCI and PII data. IBM Optim data extract datasets contain such sensitive PCI and PII data unloaded from Db2 for z/OS tables and must be encrypte...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 3 Delivered

Ability to turn off or lock the new feature of automatically creating table structures when dropping objects

The new feature in Cognos 11.1.1 of automatically creating table structures when dropping an object. This makes nesting data items into the end column/row of a crosstab or table very difficult. It also makes reporting writing unnecessarily difficu...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Replicating clone tables from a source data store and tables which have a clone table defined

As per IDR 11.4, support is not provided either for replicating source clone tables or for replicating tables which have a clone table defined. We need to be able to replicate source tables involved in clone relationships.

Storage Saver - more flexibility needed for image copy template

The member AQTENV in library hlq.SAQTSAMP defines a template to be used for the image copy datasets used when partitions are archived. Although it follows the conventions of the Db2 Utilities TEMPLATE keyword it is less flexible. The reason is tha...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide ways to optimize PROPERTYVALS table

Run stats and backup database activities are taking longer as the size of the OP Database increasesThis is overlapping with other operational activities and impacting business usersin Our case, PROPERTYVALS table takes about 65% of the overall siz...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Delivered

Environment Import does not update lookup entries

PMR : TS001961858Import environment is very useful to configure MDMCE, however this does have certain limitations when trying to update an existing environment. One of these limitations is regarding lookup tables.Existing entries in Lookup tables ...
over 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Journal Control Field &USER not filled correctly within Oracle dbms_scheduler

We use the journal control fields within IDR. Especially the &USER field. Our whole archiving solution is based on that Means we delete data with a certain Oracle USER like REPL_ASRV on a global Oracle database and the data is really deleted i...
about 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

QMF - Add support for DB2 systems using RACF security RFE 78202

QMF has the following administrator check on product initialization:It is trying to insert or delete from Q.PROFILES table. If the insert/delete succeeded, then the user becomes "QMF Admin".Else, It is a regular QMF user. This check is based on ge...
about 10 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

CDC zOS Support Index with Identity Columns

Last week, during our testing of table replication with identity columns, it was discovered that CDC on zOS was unable to utilize primary indexes containing identity columns for replication. Since many tables utilize the identity column as the pri...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered
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Backup Size should be part of DB2 meta data tables so that enterprize level planning and KPIs can be identified

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Currently DB2 doesn’t provide backup object size in Admin_Hist or any metadata tables. It writes to diag but that’s very challenging to read and interpret . If backup object size info added to metadata it will help for planning our backup storage ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 4 Delivered