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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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Add support for Db2 timestamp(12) data type in DataStage and CP4D

The Db2 data type timestamp(12) (timestamp with a precision up to 12 digits of the second) is not supported by DataStage. This data type is used and required for temporal tables in Db2 (LUW) and Db2 for z/OS. Temporal tables are a very helpful fun...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to hide a column in the Dashboard tables

To be able to sort a table by a column which is not visible. This is sometimes required by users eg. when there is need to have table sorted by a specific column but its values are not wanted to be shown for various reasons (they want to have as s...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

MERGE statement should respect table DDL's default values and specify column in Snowflake stage

When processing data with the Snowflake destination, it does not respect the target table's DDL for default values. For example, if the table has a column with the default value set to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in Snowflake, the stage will just insert a n...
7 months ago in StreamSets 1 Planned for future release

Need to see virtualized objects in relationship explorer for business term or catalog

We create virtualized tables and develop views based on business requirements. When a virtualized asset is added to the related content of a business term through the enrichment process and published to the catalog, we want to ensure that these vi...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Allow more granular control over what SQL will result in Statistics Profiles updates

Unnecessary statistics can increase RUNSTATS collection elapsed and CPU time, sometimes exponentially, and impact BIND/PREPARE performance because the optimizer must read in all available statistics to determine what is and is not useful for each ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

RLF DSNRLMTxx table field RLFIP allow subnet wildcard

we have a need to restrict threads with RLF by specifying userid and source IP with a subnet wild card. the source ips change with each "logon". In order to restrict all possible ips under a given subnet, we would need to enter 255 X 255 ips. allo...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Catalogs should have an alternative screen for showing / presenting Data Assets in a hierarchical way

Client is requesting a more contextual way, so to speak, of showing the Data Assets in the catalogs. The way the Data Assets are presented nowadays is considered loose. They should belong to a certain context. At the very least, there should be a ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Replacing data in System Temporal Tables using LOAD

In most tables data can be replaced using LOAD RESUME NO REPLACE. In System Termporal Tables it cannot. We want to use LOAD REPLACE to replace the existing data instead of having to delete the current data and then load with RESUME YES. The old da...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Data Table - De-/Select all elements in the filter

I'm missing an option to select and deselect alle elements in the filter dialog of the data table.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release