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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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Column-level filtering by Data Consumer on DPH UI

Hi Team, we have a high priority request from Customer to provide the flexibility to Data Consumer to do Column-level filtering of Data Product and then subscribe on those data at the DPH UI. I have stated the example scenario below: Data Publishe...
7 months ago in Data Product Hub 1 Future consideration

Improvement of QREP to allow replication of data generated in the Db2 LOG by the LOAD utility with SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES.

Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario:- Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + Db2 v13 for z/OS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Show status "active/pending" in Management Console and not just '"active" when DMFS510P metadata table "UPDSTS=2" in CDC DB2 for i

if the status of a table in the back end system (CDC Db2 for i) is 'active/pending' ( metadata table DMFS510P PF when "UPDSTS=2" - "active/pending") for any reason, that this status is visible in the CDC Management Console.
12 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Remove Group Based Access Limitation

Description of Limitation: IBM has defined a few limitations with role based access which include the following: A role cannot own database objects. Permissions and roles granted to groups are not considered when you create the following database ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Way to tell if a Db2 view is not being used any longer

We are looking for a solution to tell if a Db2 view is still used or not.A request came to our team to rename a column in several tables. One of the tables have multiple view on it, and one of the view includes the column to be renamed. We cannot ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Need functionality to Exclude Assets/schemas from MDI Scan by Name/Pattern

Need new feature/option that allows users to exclude specific data assets or tables from a Metadata Import (MDI) scan based on a naming convention or pattern. This would prevent the catalog from being populated with unnecessary assets and improve ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

CDC for Oracle database: if you are replicating an tables from Oracle where there are encrypted tablespaces, CDC should warn that it cannot be used as source

A customer has pointed out that the Oracle team might encrypt tablespaces, databases or any eligible for encryption object without any prior warning. This customer would benefit of CDC for Oracle database warning that the source tables are encrypt...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration