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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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WKC API must return a specific error messages

WKC API must return a specific error so VZ can pinpoint why an extract is failing When the data profiling script is executed, we are receiving errors/ exceptions from the WKC API call intermittently. The response error code that it returns is not ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

HAA$UREO - Max Tape Vols/DASD Units should be created on HAA$DSD as separate fields

Seems having Max Tape Vols/DASD Units is dangerous. These should be separated into two different entry fields. VOLCNT is tape volumes, UNCNT is units. Also these should not be on a general panel, HAA$UREO. This should be on HAA$DSD. The fields rea...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

PostgreSQL CDC Client should support array fields

Array fields in the PostgreSQL CDC Client are unsupported. They are returned as strings or not at all depending on the configuration due to unsupported data types. When we add [] after any data type definition: i.e. INT -> INT[] means it's now ...
over 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Delivered

LISTAGG - Reduce workfile usage of function LISTAGG

The function LISTAGG uses a lot of workfile space. This can lead to abends, especially if there are many groups. This is the specific case where the problem occurred in our company: SELECT A.GES_SL, A.VNR, A.POS_LNR , SUBSTR(LISTAGG(TA_ID,'/') WIT...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Making the real-time stats externalization optional

The Automation Tool issues the ACCESS DATABASE(*) SPACE(*) MODE(STATS) command whenever the REALTIMESTATS option is used in an exception profile. This default behavior causes some problems: Since the ACCESS command is issued to every DB and TS in ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Need clearer / more detailed DESCRIPTIONS of the SMF fields written by the DB2 CDC task

A number of the Descriptions of the fields of the SMF records written by the DB2 CDC z/OS process are not clear and would benefit by providing more more and/or more detailed DESCRIPTIONS. These descriptions are currently located in the Knowledge C...
almost 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Adding feature for more frequent commits when using DB2 connector

When loading big amount of data into DB2 for Warehousing, we are exceeding DB2 limitation 300GB which means that we need to load the data with more than just one commit. However when using external tables in DataStage, DB2 connector ingores the co...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Set APPLICATION_NAME and CLIENT_APPLNAME property on QMF tool level to easily identify QMF tool database connection

I have downloaded fresh new version of QMF for Workstation v13.1 on Windows 10. This issue is also present in previous versions, so not a regression on latest version. 1. Start QMF tool. 2. Connect to any Db2 database. I have connected to Db2 v11....
almost 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

turn off intent

Currently, if we have "seasonal" intents, we have to pull them out and save them somewhere. There is no way to turn them off at certain times of the year. It would be helpful to have an on/off switch for intents. Better yet would be a means to hav...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Delivered

Google Big Query support for dynamic cubes

We use dynamic cubes running against Vertica database. There is an enterprise initiative to replace Vertica with Google Big Query in cloud. This means our dynamic cubes must be able to run efficiently against Big Query. We have already converted o...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered