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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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Add Support for BLKSZLIM keyword of TEMPLATE utility

Using the Large Block Interface provided by z/OS, the performance of the Db2 COPY utility can be greatly improved when image copy data sets are created on tape. The Db2 Automation Tool does not currently allow the user to specify the BLKSZLIM keyw...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide a monitoring and alert solution across the publisher and master data connect

Currently it does not appear that there is a monitoring, logging and alert capability on the publisher component and that Instana will be used on master data connect. Could we please get a single platform to monitor the end to end environment? In ...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Future consideration

Interactive Elastic Distributed Training notebook in Watson Studio

Watson Machine Learning Accelerator Elastic Distributed Training (EDT) simplifies the distribution of training workloads for the data scientist. Deep learning experiment in Watson studio provide the UI to submit job in WMLA , but this is not inter...
about 4 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

For buffer spinslocks show if loops are for read or writes

When reviewing onstat -g spi for buffer spinlocks e.g. fast mutex, 3:bf[1024] fast mutex, 3:bhash It would be great if we could tell if this is from either: a) Read access i.e. more app caching/better query plans/more data archiving+purgin needed ...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Exclude Admin Accounts for Data Size Limits

We have a host of critical object data sets and file uploads along with some user adhoc data files and sets but we own and schedule the critical files with an Admin account however have bumped up against the Size Limit of Stored Data Per User and ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Make FTM IP Purge Utility OCP Compatible

Purge Utility delivered with FTM IP can be configured using a Cron job to trigger it run and purge transactions in FTM Database. Since FTM IP/DP has been configured on OCP now, we expect FTM Purge Utility to be OCP Compatible. As of now Utility is...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Support Postgres DBAlias via pr0cnfg on Linux

Per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=tasks-syntax-keywords, the pr0cnfg command only supports adding DBAliases for Oracle and UDB DBMS types on Linux. This means that we must use Windows if we want to use Optim Data Privacy to mask Pos...
about 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Add environment_guid as a environment variable when running jobs

When running a jupyter notebook in CP4D, Watson Studio Project, there is an environment variable called environment_guid. This is a very handy environment variable as it contains the guid of the environment associated with the jupyter notebook whe...
over 4 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

One View of All Users in Environment

Hi, So, we subscribe to 3 software with IBM Cloud - Planning Analytics, Controller and Cognos Analytics. Users are added in PA and then in Controller. Controller needs that we add users to Controller Users Group in the limited use BI. Since we use...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add a time stamp field for disabled user accounts for OpenPages/Cognos

Requesting an additional field be included the data set found in OPENPAGES_REPORTS_V6>>DEFAULT>>DEFALUT_REL>>MISCELLANEOUS>>USERS_AND_PROFILES that would show the time stamp of when a user account was disabled.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration