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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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Improve implicit casting

Since V10 there is implicit casting, which is one hand a good feature, but on the other hand can lead to big performance problems. Improve the implicit casting so that the resulting datatype is indexable, e.g. make SELECT ... FROM T1 WHERE Integer...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Watson Studio: Ability to schedule jobs directly in git-integrated projects

The customer requests the ability to schedule jobs directly inside a git-integrated projects. This is possible today in non-git projects and used to be possible in git-integrated projects in prior versions of CPD. This capability has since been re...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Delivered

Include failure / warning counts in mon_get_pkg_cache_stmt

It's currently not possible to monitor the failure rate of an SQL statement. For example, count of dupkey on INSERT. Likewise for 'soft' errors (warnings) like +100 - row not found on INSERT or DELETE. High rates of these can be a significant drai...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

Rules should pick up metadata assigned to data classes

Currently, Rules within WKC only picks up data classes, business terms, and classifications that are applied directly to columns/assets within the Catalog, under the asset preview section. We expected that we would be able to create dependent data...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Improve DB2 DBD pool processing to prevent full and provide better diagnostics

Improve DB2 DBD pool processing by1) providing a dynamic increase process to help prevent full conditions (and therefore thread failures)2) providing better diagnostics to identify the DBD's consuming the most non-stealable space. Optionally - ide...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

I want the ability to open an asset in a new tab on the catalog Assets tab.

When you are on the Assets tab in a catalog, there is no way to open an asset in a new tab. You are only able to go directly into the asset and then have to follow the breadcrumb link at the top of the page to get back to the catalog. When people ...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Workflows: Include support for mathematical operations/transformations in Expressions

It'd be a great addition if we can evaluate mathematical expressions as conditions or operations in Native Workflow. Sample use cases: 1. Operate on a field, making it 1.2 times its original value. 2. Operate on another field, e.g., adjust the val...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered

allow SELECT with LISTAGG function to always allow ORDER BY

I am using DB2 Version 12. function level 501 I have a simple SQL example I show my co-workers to show the power of new DB2 SQL function of LISTAGG SELECT IXCREATOR, IXNAME ,LISTAGG(ALL COLNAME,',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY COLSEQ) AS ALL_COLS ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered

An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Delivered