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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Improve the way HADR retrieve light scan on standby deals with failures such as DISK FULL

When DB2 HADR Standby is behind 2-3TB, it retrieves all files from archives to active log file system and makes the file system full. Standby replays one log file at a time and hence, retrieving thousands of files ahead slows down the replays, mak...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Teradata Assets - Column analysed incorrectly as Primary Key

In Teradata the assets are defined as PRIMARY INDEX and UNIQUE PRIMARY INDEX. If a column is a PRIMARY INDEX, it is not a primary key until UNIQUE is mentioned.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Enable Role Assignment on the 'Manage Environments' Page within IBM Cloud enviornments

In the Manage Environments page for a user, please add the capability to assign the role in addition to the environment. Currently the assignment aligns to the role on the primary environment, however for some users we need this to vary by environ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Support High Availablity for namenode in File Connector stage

As with most big data installations, we have a primary and a secondary namenode for the cluster. When the primary namenode fails over to the secondary namenode (or vice versa), a Big Integrate Data Stage job using the File Connector WebHDFS access...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Add New Wizard - option to limit to 1 parent object and only show valid primary parents

When creating objects, the add new wizard displays possible parent objects. However, it doesn't only show objects you can create the object from, it shows objects you may optionally associate to as well. This is confusing for the end user who is t...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Delivered

CDC zOS Support Index with Identity Columns

Last week, during our testing of table replication with identity columns, it was discovered that CDC on zOS was unable to utilize primary indexes containing identity columns for replication. Since many tables utilize the identity column as the pri...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Add option to use manage option SMSDSEXIST in ICKDSF for option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes

Our site have an option to protect volumes with datasets from INIT with ICKDSF and when we run Recovery expert with option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes it fail with messages : 09:58:46 ARYS278I - Task 01 - Unit 9A01 was initialized with volser...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Avoid synchronous preformat in SQL INSERT transactions

[Background]The customer's system providing banking services abroad is exposed to regulatory risk by the local banking regulator.The customer is forced to complete a specific transaction within a second basically.This specific SQL INSERT transacti...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Bulk Update: Order of questions to follow order in questionnaire and follow dependencies

questions listed in alphabetical order, is it possible to list them in the order they are asked? Also-I remember during show&tell, all dependencies on the questions were available on bulk update as well, you could not select an answer for a de...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

UUID for PostgreSQL in CDC

Many modern PostgreSQL databases contain tables with columns of UUID type, which are often used as primary keys (e.g. are critical for the replication process).Adding support for replication of such tables (with UUID columns) will extend the usefu...
almost 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered