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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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RFE: Readable Commit Stream Topic + Commit Cycle ID (CCID)

We would like to use the information in the Commit Stream Topic, which IBM uses in a proprietary format for the TCC component, in a Kafka Streams Application in order to reconstruct a commit from our source database (Db2 for z/OS). Knowing the com...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

consistent jcl member names via online and Batch facility

There are 2 options to generate JCL for a recovery plan for an application profile: online interface and via batch. The JCL naming convention for both the options are different. Online interface generated JCL members say 20 jobs are all generated ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Make EDIT button behaving consistently throughout UI

Make EDIT button behaving consistently throughout UI. Currently at some page, EDIT button could only perform DELETE, e.g. 1. Go to Business Term artifact option 2. On the Right Hand side you will EDIT button ,click on Edit 3. Edit enables checkbox...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Is a defect

IDS 12.10 syspurge enhancement

Description: We are experiencing locking errors during IBM Informix Dynamic Server syspurge causing a failure to complete syspurge specifically with tables using interval fragmentation. We understand that currently IBM cannot guarantee that there...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set defaults for data rules

We would like to be able to set global, personal, and project defaults for data rules. Project-level defaults would be highest priority. This should include output tables, sampling etc. This would make rule creation more efficient and consistent.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Please add the missing SNAPSTMT/SNAP_GET_STMT columns to MON_GET_ACTIVITY.

1.SNAPSTMT administrative view/SNAP_GET_STMT table function is said to be replaced by MON_GET_ACTIVITY table function, but I would like to add the following columns because MON_GET_ACTIVITY does not have them. AGENT_ID STMT_TYPE STMT_OPERATION DEG...
over 2 years ago in Db2 3 Future 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...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Package Specific Object Library for Queries and Data Containers

Our team uses an Object Library with a set of standard components used across reports via layout component references. This includes things like logos, headers, footers, and statically defined prompts. This works well to keep consistency throughou...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow table compression to be disabled for DGTTs and CGTTs

In short: OLTP applications frequently encounter performance issues because DB2 enables table compression by default for all DGTTs / CGTTs. Details from a real-time example: When inserting 40K rows to a DGTT, it takes 2 seconds. When we immediatel...
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Consistent Spreading behavior among different Viewers and Client

IBM Planning Analytics For Excel Users are not able to input value in rule-driven consolidated cell in Exploration. However it works from Viewer. Rules defined: [revenue]=N:[volume]*[price]; [price]=C:[revenue]\[volume]; This behavior creates conf...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration