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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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UTF8 should be handled in background instead of setting SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR

More and more customers have to include data from all over the world. The solution for this is UTF8, but for now this feature does not work in the background and add space if needed. The feature is implemented using SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR as configurati...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add same table multiple times as role playing dimensions in data module

In the data modelling component, it should be possible to add the same table in multiple times to be able to create a datamart with roleplaying dimensions.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable temporal history to catalog to query DDL at points in time.

Having the ability to enabling system temporal history for catalog objects that contain schema information would allow the ability to rapidly restore a table to a prior point in time that has had a schema change.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Row Level Access Control support

Db2 for z/OS customers are using multilevel security for business needs and regulatory reasons. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=granularity-creating-tables-multilevel-security If a table is defined with a AS SECURITY LABEL, this t...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add option in db2look to not extract LBAC every time

All of the LBAC definitions are extracted and printed every time the -e option is specified. If one just wants the DDL for a single table, all of the LBAC definitions are printed, even if that table has nothing to do with LBAC. A -nolbac option wo...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Write Current Compression Dictionary to Log

Write compression dictionary to the Log upon its creation. This would enable true independence of data capture from actual table space availability and/or status. By implication, this might eliminate the need to write the old dictionary to the log...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Reduce message flooding on system console using Db2 System Profile Monitoring for security profiles when detecting non-secure connections and WARNING_DIAGLEVEL3

This Aha idea is being opened on behalf of Commerzbank (Ute Kleyensteuber). Security profiles are used with System Profile Monitoring filter LOCATION=*, ATTR1=WARNING_ DIAGLEVEL3, ATTR3=1 (TLS required) to discover all incoming non-secure connecti...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support synchronous detachment of a table partition

Starting with DB2 9.7(?) the detachment of table partitions is handled asynchonously. To simulate synchronous behaviour a complicated work around has to be put in place. Such a behavior could be triggered by a new DML keyword such as ASYNC.
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Feature to add columns to custom tables created as copy from an existing table.

If in a Data Module a copy of table is created by using custom tables, there is no way to add new columns to it. The only workaround is to create a new copy, but this is often unfeasible because all changes are lost, the relationships need to be r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HAA - PBR containing XML generated REORG that abended because XML running at the same time as an index in the base table containing the XML column in two separate jobs

Base table has index: Name Schema T DB Name TS Name Cols Rows Chks * * * * * * * * ------------------ -------- - -------- -------- ------ ----------- ---- MASTER_TRANS_MTR ZAP2 T DZAP2QR1 SQR1MTR 17 10 0 XQR14MTR Column Name Seq No O Col Type Leng...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration