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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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Apache Cassandra for Datastage Stage does not have option to execute SQL statement

Current Apache Cassandra for Datastage stage has options to define columns, pass the schema and table name, if we need to filter out data or run a custom SQL statement it does not provide any option. It would be necessary for developers to have an...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

IBM Infosphere Data Replication Management Console – DB2 LUW LOAD Utility.

Change Data Capture (CDC) Subscriptions mirroring from DB2 LUW to Event Server (JMS) are constantly failing due to some LOADs performed on DB2 LUW side. We must manually recycle affected LOAD table whenever they fail to restart the subscriptions f...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

onaudit for informix user - exclude system databases from the audit trail

Currently, our audit tool is configured to monitor DDL and DML actions specifically for the user "Informix." This setup ensures that our audit report contains only the information necessary for business purposes. However, it is also recording acti...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Manta support for Informatica DEI "Data Engineering Integration"aka BDM "Big Data Management"

Informatica DEI or BDM is used extensivesly at our organization to read/write data from Hive tables and move data around the enterprise. having the ability to extract lineage automatically from this system, via Manta, would simply the effort requi...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

CHECK utility SHRLEVEL CHANGE with less dataset privileges

To run CHECK utility with SHRLEVEL CHANGE you need ALTER privilege to the VSAM dataset where the table-, LOB- or index data are stored as the shadow dataset is created with almost the same name as the original. This also mean that the user will be...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Proper RACF Group based security policies with fine-grain role permissions

In enterprises, different employees perform different roles and they move across teams or have organisation changes. Current IIDR CDC product doesn't support proper RACF based group policies which means when a new user joins or leave a team, vario...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add BIGINT support for source/target DB2 for i

BIGINT type is supported into DB2 for i for years. Why doesn't support BIGINT by CDC ? Indeed, currently everyone use BIGINT type to create colums key (primary or forreign keys). In fact, We can't use these values into filters or derived columns. ...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

HDR shall handle blobs which are located in a blob space

In contrast to CLR (Continous Log Restore) is HDR not able to replicate blobs which are lying within a blob dbspace. HDR is only able to replicate blobs when they are within a table space. Work-Around: => see addional details #Customers: More o...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted