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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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Cloud Events Data format support for Mainframe event streaming

Cloud Event ( https://cloudevents.io/ ) is an industry standard format that supports Open Telemetry based distributed tracing by default Please use trace & span along with timestamp linked logs, metrics for proper linkage of errors to particul...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Observability Improvements inline with cloud principles and SRE capabilities.

Current IIDR (CDC) needs CHCCLP to be run periodically to pull the monitoring metrics and use IIDR (CDC) Management Console for monitoring visualisation which is 80's or 90's era thinking. At enterprises, we use different observability tools and w...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Future consideration

Display Origin Dataset and Data Source Metadata for Virtualized Assets in CP4D Data Virtualization

Currently, when visualizing virtualized assets in CP4D Data Virtualization, the UI does not display metadata indicating the origin dataset or the data source used to create a specific virtualized asset. This lack of information makes it challengin...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Add option for generic/custom JDBC driver

Access to production systems is done via custom JDBC driver, that uses itself the JDBC drivers from DB2 LUW and Oracle. We need to use this custom JDBC driver to access productive data from our Cognos development systems, for example in a complex ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE and db2look result in partition table column range definitions padding extra blank spaces when using config STRING_UNITS = CODEUNITS32

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE and db2look need to be updated to properly support STRING_UNITS = CODEUNITS32. When running ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE on a partitioned table with the 'MOVE' option, or when running db2look, in an environment with the db cfg setting for STR...
6 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Is a defect

Option to copy object location in Cognos

We have many reports that live many folders deep in Team content. In order to get the navigation path for a particular report, we used to be able to copy the bread crumbs displayed in Cognos 10 or there was a navigation path in the report properti...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

IFCID 366/376: include SQL text in the trace records

The analysis of IFCID 366/376 is done via SMF records. When these records are available (one day delay), it is nearly impossible to match the statement ID to a statement in dynamic statement cache, because the statement might be already discarded....
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improvements to Relationship Explorer

The current Relationship Explorer default view is messy. It can be improved by: 1. the lines between the nodes can ne customised. lines should also not cross under nodes as it is difficult to trace. 2. have restricted scopes 3. able to perform aut...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

Configure a user-defined value for disabling all IFI request and MONITOR trace processing after a number of abends

When a certain number of abends occurs, while processing IFI requests, processing of all IFI request and MONITOR trace is disabled, requiring an action from Db2 operator/system administrator to be resumed. Today this number of abends, that disable...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

Statements Event Monitor should include UOW (transaction commit) to give similar capability as a db2 z/os trace

When trying to diagnose an online transaction problem, I could not find a way of tracing the transaction with an Event Monitor to include the implicit commits of the XA Transaction (XA-PREPARE, XA-END). I raised ticket a ticket with IBM (mentioned...
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Under review