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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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Calculation Function: Dedup or non-invasive REMOVE for lists

When trying to write out a function, we keep running into a situation as we get deeper into the hierarchy, and information is pulled from ancestors we keep having occasional duplicate values that might form a list. There are no functions or method...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Future consideration

Provide export functionality to select other user info to be displayed in export, for example, to show email address or first name and last name instead UserID?

Business users will be able to identify quickly an easily who are the owner, assignee or user that has an specific role just into the record export. In this moment are able to see the user name (UserID) only, so a user should investigate the first...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Reduce restrictions of ADD PARTITION

“ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION” is not available when target table holds uncommitted(not materialized) definition change. In most cases “MAXVALUE” is selected as limit key value because Partitioned-Table of TABLE-CONTROL cannot hold data exceeded the ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

Enhance high availability for partition by growth tablespaces.

Real-life scenario is described in the first paragraph below. I included a subset of it. The issue resulted in critical system outage caused a partition by growth dataset that hit max extents prior to hitting the DSMAX for the partition tablespace...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Rules should pick up metadata assigned to data classes

Currently, Rules within WKC only picks up data classes, business terms, and classifications that are applied directly to columns/assets within the Catalog, under the asset preview section. We expected that we would be able to create dependent data...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Improve performance of L1/L2 backups

Current, for L1 (or L2) backups we need to read all pages. This is highly inefficient and there are alternatives for implementing this.In the PMR we've been told this matches old FEA idsdb00010525. In this the proposed solution was to maintain a t...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Data Masking in INFORMIX

Our objective is not to see any sensitive data outside the production systems. As an example here is our real requirement. In a PROD environment, we can see the table data as usual . For data protection purposes, the data of the same table needs t...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Enable to add custom first names to the underlying language dictionaries

Security organizations would like to analyze reports, in these reports officers often use partial person names (only last names for example). In SPSS Text Analytics there in an extraction option for "Group partial and full person names together", ...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Text Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Null Order

The null order of the CA reports is first when Cognos connect Db2, but the order is last when Cognos connect Netezza. I want to be able to select whether null is the first or last for each report.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration