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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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Improve auditing possibilities

As Db2 for z/OS users, we want to use the AUDIT POLICY functionality to support internal and external auditors and provide the proof of proper allowed access to Db2 z/OS objects, especially in the form of SQL queries using input host variables (“f...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Batch ATF Reporting

Allow the input of ATF VSAM records for running OMPE Batch SQL Activity Trace reports
2 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add API Support to retrieve parent and child assets in Data Lineage

Currently, The Data Lineage API's provide support to retrieve child assets. However there is no equivalent API to retrieve the parent assets of a given asset. this capability is essential to fully trace lineage both downstream and upstream - a cri...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Include row numbers of rules when displaying Trace Cell from cube.

When troubleshooting rules in a large rules file, it would be much easier to identify which rule is being triggered if the row numbers were included in the Trace Cell. Currently, you have to manually search the file to locate the triggered rule an...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

DB2 message showing a trace was started

Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Give ISAM/tabid when syspurge() fails

We had a purge that was failing for a protracted period and it took a lot of trapping and tracing to figure out why, since the full error details were not being reported. In the interim, performance degraded and we risked running out of space.
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

new accounting trace field to indicate if distributed connection was secure or not

We have recently enabled the SECPORT in all our Db2 subsystem. And now it is possible for a distributed client to use the SECPORT (instead of TCPPORT) and establish a secure SSL/TLS connection to the Db2. Great. Ideally, I would like to shut down ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Cloud Events Data format support for Mainframe event streaming

Cloud Event ( https://cloudevents.io/ ) is an industry standard format that supports Open Telemetry based distributed tracing by default Please use trace & span along with timestamp linked logs, metrics for proper linkage of errors to particul...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Observability Improvements inline with cloud principles and SRE capabilities.

Current IIDR (CDC) needs CHCCLP to be run periodically to pull the monitoring metrics and use IIDR (CDC) Management Console for monitoring visualisation which is 80's or 90's era thinking. At enterprises, we use different observability tools and w...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Future consideration

JDBC suport of collection data types in scroll cursors

Currently the usage of collection data type columns in scroll cursors are disabled by default throwing an Exception with this stack trace. Stack trace returned is: at com.informix.util.IfxErrMsg.buildExceptionWithMessage(IfxErrMsg.java:416) at com...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration