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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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File Connector - Definition for Internal table Location

We need the table location to be optional when we define it as an internal table. When the location is not user-defined, the Datastage must define the create table command, but it does not need to define the location. This is important because the...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client (Fukuoka Financial Group) is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Cl...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Need improved combination logic for multiple DPR filter rules

Need a enhancement per case TS020373951. As suggested by Steven, the LMCO requirement here needs an expansion of the features of Data Protection Rules. The current attempt using AND requires that columns have both A and B, but the whole logic ther...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Make IFI process zIIP eligible

With more and more data being replicated off host, the replication tasks are increasingly using more and more CPU to read the logs. Allowing the IFI read process to be zIIP eligible would help reduce our general purpose CPU consumption. This would...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Unhide Synonyms from Lineage

A common pattern in data warehouses, especially with DB2, is to use Synonyms (DB2 calls those Aliases) to allow tables to be updated without impacting running queries and data integration processes or causing wrong/partial data to be displayed. Un...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic _as_of_date

The _as_of_date functionality works great and makes relative dates so much better. However, the inability to set a dynamic _as_of_date is a challenge. For example many customers have data warehouses that load based on yesterday's data. These custo...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Planning Analytics:-Cognos Analytics as a Data Source

We have highlighted that In Previous version of PA and PAW we had option to select Cognos Analytics as data source which gives us option to integrate with SAP and cloud databases such as Snowflake. Currently this feature is only enabled in Perform...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change example lines: 1000

We would like a Row Sample to be able to be configured so we can choose how many rows to display. Often, we don't need a very large data sample. For example, we can use a sample of 10 rows for the user. This avoids displaying unnecessary records t...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Cloud Pak Configuration as Code

We have 3 Installations of Cloud Pak for Data (Stages - PROD, QA, BUILD) and would need the ability to configure the hole instance in a git repository. To Configure Cloud Pak for Data "ArgoCD" like as code in yaml form. Why do we need this: It is ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release