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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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Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications in Business UI.

Hi Team, The support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications which has been removed from Business UI now. It will be good if we keep supporting that option as we see multiple use cases where need to have lookup referencing...
almost 3 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Searching for widget properties in PAW

We could probably debate forever about what properties of a widget belong in which category but, for example. Under Visualization , Column and Row Headers we have options to do with the format of the headers. Under Custom, Table Style, we hav...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support for ON UPDATE CASCADE

Use case: There is a table called release with a primary key id of type integer and an additional column name (the release name). And further tables (e.g. table_x, table_y, …) with a reference (foreign key) to release.id. The working tables are ta...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Ability to identify PREPARE statement in SQL SEF rule

We would like to implement a SQL rule preventing SELECT * statements without a WHERE or LIMIT clause. Our rule works great, but is also activated when a new VT is created over a Db2 table. The engine also generate a SELECT * PREPARE statement. We ...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Change OBDRX2AC Tracking From OBD Level To TS Partition Level

Currently after an ALTER ADD COLUMN has been executed on a partitioned TS , all subsequent reorgs go through the compression cycle until all partitions have been reorged within the same modify recovery range. For very large TSs with many partition...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Limit the number of Alerts being sent from CAE

Today, we have alerts set up for -805, -904 and -913. Being able to get a -904 alert and act on it before the customer/user calls is huge. We do parse the message looking for the reason code and if it's critical, Db2 Support is paged. However, the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Integrating DCLGEN with Db2 Admin tool

Hi Team, Our Customer was using BMC for Db2 tool and they wanted to move to IBM tools, specially Db2 Admin tool as a replacement for BMC. Earlier, with BMC, they had a interface of DCLGEN integrated with BMC. Currently, in IBM Admin tool (V12.1), ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Lookup Tables to the Structure Changes that are tracked

Our external auditors are adding controls to the mapping of data (trial balance and statisical data) into Cognos. In order to elminate the need for the walk-through of negative and postive testing in Cognos (on a regular basis) it would be helpful...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Mutli-cube table

(Please refer to the file for detailed screenshots) In the following example, we want to create a book in which end-user can define a mapping for an allocation. We wish here to allocate Shared Adv & Marketing Expenses (from Europe Mkt services...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration