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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Allow Db2 SysAdmins to specify explicit numbers of DIR or DATA entries, as an alternative to RATIO

The Challenge The current mechanism for specifying the number of Directory Entries and/or Data Pages in a Group Bufferpool is the RATIO parameter. This worked well enough when memory sizes were small. With Db2 for z/OS bufferpools in the 10s ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Security hole:Unsecure encrypted storage

System: Product systemdescription:Many web applications do not use appropriate encryption measures or Hash algorithms to protect sensitive data, such as credit cards, social security numbers (SSN), identity certificates, and so on. Attackers may u...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Delivered

Attributes in Workspace

When adding attributes to a view within PAW, you are able to select as many attributes as you want. If by chance you select many attributes, then you can no longer see the data as the attributes table does not have a scroll.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 WLM to enable it to prioritize access to physical I/O

We have a Db2 AESE 11.1 fp4a mixed use (but no column tables) data warehouse on an AIX 7.2 LPAR that is limited to 75K IOPS by NetApp. When the threshold is met, high priority OLTP queries submitted by our 1000 retail store POS systems can hang in...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Connectivity and Profiling for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2

Data Scientists and Quality Analysts needs to profile data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2. We are able to connect to ADLS Gen2 via DataStage using the latest connectors, and import the metadata via IMAM. However, profiling from Info Analyzer and...
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability Customize Objects Available on "Data Pane"

In Planning Analytics Workspace, we would like the ability to hide objects along the data pane at the left side of the interface. The reason for this would be to prevent undesired actions from end users. For example, we have 2 separate cubes for a...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

pureScale support HADR multiple standbys

It is a current limitation that in pureScale HADR can only support one standby. It is a requirement to be able to support more than one standbys, typically with one of the standby in the same data centre as the primary, and another standby in a re...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Customer has requested to remove the comma for integer field.

Display format of Integer fields in MDMCE For all Integer type data fields, the values are being comma (,) separated as its using a thousand separator in the tool by design. We need to remove the comma.
about 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to update DVM Virtual data using Db2

Currently DVM supports the creation of UDTF's on DVM virtual tables. This provides the customer with the ability to use Db2's SQL engine and Read DVM Data. This proposal is to add functionality to DVM to support updating DVM virtual tables using a...
about 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IIS DataStage needs encryption key rotation

The latest version of IIS DataStage 11.7.1 has no documented ability to be able to change any keys used to encrypt password type data in the product. Security best practices are to periodically rotate the keys.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration