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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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Support Rate Limiting in the LSF Proxy

We have a case where users, if left to their own accords will not eclipse the current supported connections, but in the end will diminish the batch performance if left on their own. So, provide a feature where I can have a configuration file that ...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

To add partitions contingent on the row count of a table\view.

We need other enhancements to add partitions contingent on the row count of a table\view. When exceedingly large (i.e. millions and billions of rows), we need to look for primary and secondary keys, especially related to dates to add where conditi...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Future consideration

Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

Switch CAE Server in Sysplex from Hot Stand By to Active while running

Hello IBM, we have the Db2 Query monitor in an active passive configuration in a Syplex. During Maintenance we begin the with the secondary side of the plex were the hot stand by instance of the Query Monitor is running. After the maintenance we w...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance Category Selection for Metadata Enrichment by adding an option to choose between using only Primary categories or including Secondary categories.

This enhancement would provide users with the flexibility to select whether to include only Primary categories or to expand their selection to include Secondary categories when identifying Data Classes or Business Terms for analysis. By offering t...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

CM should support majority-vote failover arbitration as an alternative to priority-based

Currently, the Informix Connection Manager handles failover arbitration on the basis of a priority setting in the ${CMCONFIG} file. This has the effect of making a single CM the judge, jury and executioner when it comes to failover events. And it ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Extend Schema Registry support to non-Kafka sources

CP4D support for the use of a Schema Registry is currently limited to Kafka data sources (ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=catalogs-apache-kafka-connection). However, Schema Registries represent a valuable method ens...
almost 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Extend 3000 bytes limitation of Key size

TS017762899 | Case Viewer While replicating a table that doesn't have a primary key, we want to be able to select all column as the key, which hits the 3000 hard limit on key length. We got this answer from Support on TS017762899: "A derived colum...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Redirected Restore on STANDBY for STOGROUP expansion

Case number: TS008472518 Our database was 42TB and the file system were 45TB across 12 file systems. I wanted to expance the total storage to TB by adding 12 additional file systems. I took a backup and did a re-directed restore on standby with 24...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration