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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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Generate a reorg for the history table when doing an add column on the base table (STT)

I’m going to add a column to two tables that are “connected” through versioning (STT).This is what I (or the tool) should do: ALTER TABLE MY.BASETAB ADD NEW_COLUMN DECIMAL(5, 3) NOT NULL; REORG TABLESPACE MYDB.BASETS REORG TABLESPACE MYDB.HISTTS T...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

IGC/WKC and Erwin version 2020 compatibility

We are trying to upgrade our Erwin software to version 2020, but IGC/WKC does not support Erwin version 2020 yet. That is keep Erwin N-1 (Max one version behind the current version) compliant. Erwin is soon releasing 2021 version as well.
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

DDL change tolerance in the CDC Replication Engine for Db2® for z/OS® Remote Source

In the CDC Replication Engine for Db2® for z/OS® Remote Source, DDL changes in the replication cannot be compensated by the product while it can be compensated in the native cdc. It is because of table versioning after DDL change (Add column, Drop...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

EndOnError, ONDecompressionError, and onutilityaction parameters in remote source

In the CDC Replication Engine for Db2® for z/OS® Remote Source , some of the native cdc for z/OS parameters cannot be used yet. We know the following parameters are in development. • EndOnError parameter till the end of 2021 Q1 • ONDecompressionEr...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Reformat the SYSCOPY Report in INFOM ddname to be a single line instead of two lines

I would also like to see this on one line. Takes up too much vertical space. This would also be more readable with a columnized report. ICTYPE STYPE TTYPE OTYPE DSNUM LDSNUM HDSNUM LOGGED INSTANCE ------ ----- -------- ----- ----- ------ ------ --...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ITM OMEGAMON XE Enhanced 3270 User Interface (E3270UI) - DB2 abort counter

We need the CICS transactions - DB2 abort counter included in the OMEGAMON for DB2 so that the counter is visible in the e3270 workspaces then. RFE for Product: IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor Type: RFEProject Area: RFE CommunityFiled Against:P...
almost 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

request the nested fields will be available also in the Content Mining UI as well.

Our client are using the Box crawler in the Watson Discovery. This crawler is crawling data from the Box, however when analyzing documents in the Content Mining UI, it is unable to use facets which comes from metadata such as the author, folder na...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Functions for converting Unix Epoch Time and Dealing with RHEL 8 Native Posix MQ

SQL scalar functions for Converting between human-readable date/time and Unix Epoch Time. For example: db2 "values ept2date(123456789,0)" is equivalent to Linux GNU date command date -d "1970-01-01 1234567890 sec UTC db2 "values "date2ept('now')" ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

DB2 LUW support for CentOS 8 Stream

As announced in December of 2020, The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. Here are the expected end of life (EOL) dates for CentOS 8release. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31 Today DB2 11.5.6 is certificated/compatibl...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration