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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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Invalid maximum timestamp value availble in DB2

In reference to this Db2 for z/OS idea (link), we need the same functionality for all platforms including Db2 for LUW. I quote the text from the other RFE: Currently there is documented maximum timestamp value available in DB2 as '9999-12-31-24.0...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Asynchronous index rebuild at restart

When an index rebuild is required at the restart time, it can depend on the connection of the first user accessing the table. If the connection is killed, the index rebuild need to redone. It would be smarter to let the rebuild complete even if th...
about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DSNADSM for DB2 V11 does not gather information about SYSIBM.SYSSTATFEEDBACK

DSNADSM for DB2 V11 does not gather information about SYSIBM.SYSSTATFEEDBACK – This might lead to incomplete Runstats recommandations when reporting an access path problems via an SQL, as the DSN_STAT_FEEDBACK from the explain tables might not c...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Possible to empty datamodul cache using macro against database table

Cache is great for performance, but this need to manage if souces are updated during the day. In dynamic cube we are able refresh based on schedule or ETL with use of DCADMIN. Today is it possible to set expiry time with use of Macro in datamodul....
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update new V12 RTS catalog columns after reorg

In Db2 for z/OS v12, there are new catalog columns in the RTS tables such as:SYSIBM.SYSTABLEPART-TYPE-PAGENUM-BPOOL-PGSIZE-DSSIZE- MEMBER_CLUSTER-COMPRESSRATIO SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE-PAGENUM -INSERTALG -PQTY-STORTYPE -STORNAME -VCATNAMEetc. These co...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Salesforce select only fields for the object. Do not automatically bring back all fields in the child relationships.

This is about the DataStage Salesforce Connector. When building the Salesforce Connector Stage by importing the objects fields from Salesforce using the "Browse Objects" function . A list of tables in Salesforce will be presented. One can click th...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Optim audit tables retaining too much data

In the table Optim_Audit_Records, I see 1-2 records per archive/extract/insert. This appears to have started in Nov 2017 about when installed optim 11.3. Yet we have Optim Auditing turned off. So it appears that maybe Optim 11.3 started putting re...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Optim Separate File LOB Extract

Optim Connect does not offer a way to extract CLOBS or BLOB data types to separate files. If you have a file imbedded in a BLOB field a 3rd party tool is required to extract the data. Optim Connect does not have support for CLOBs and maps it t...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration

DB Roles Assigned to openpages and opworkflow Violate Hardening Requirements

Per previous communications with IBM the openpages and opworkflow (sevice accounts IDs) require the following roles: PENDING_TRANS$ DBA_2PC_PENDING DBA_PENDING_TRANSACTIONS DBMS_SYSTEM V$XATRANS$ OP_DATAPUMP_DIRECTORY SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE RESOURCE ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 0 Not under consideration

Support JSON-Functions

More and more architecture decisions turning into service oriented architectures. In this case data is not available in relational tables anymore but eg. JSON files. In data modules JSON functions can be implemented to show report authors data in ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration