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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Db2 zOS: Provide support for period-clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for update operation within MERGE statement

Idea is to extend functionality of MERGE statement in Db2 z/OS by providing support for the period clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for an update operation (and delete operation) within the MERGE statement. The statement would look like this: ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

event monitor tables (activity/actitivtystmt/activitymetrics) should support range partitioning

event monitor tables do not support range partitioning. In addition, you can not create expression based indexes on them. This makes them more difficult to manage and query. create event monitor wlm_activity_mon for activitieswrite to table activi...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Issue - Data formatting on Conditional blocks

1. Data formatting defined for the cell doesn't work inside conditional blocks.2. Search Enhancement - Cannot search for report within subfolder. Always, search option shows result from the root folder in cognos connection3. Copy and Paste Enhance...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rollback changes to both accelerators if failure occurs loading multiple accels in one load statement

We have a situation where it is important to keep the data in synch on both accelerators, so we use one statement to load both accelerators. Real case: The data is loaded from OPERLOG logstream to shadow table every 15 minutes on two IDAA accelera...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade Log4j from 1.x to 2.x in IBM Infosphere MDM Platform.

Current IBM MDM versions 12.x and 11.x uses Log4j 1.2.6 version which is Outdated, officially end of life from Apache and it is no longer maintained. Hence recommendation is to upgrade the Log4j to its latest version 2.x in IBM MDM platform that w...
almost 3 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace PPT Download Zoom Percentage Increase

After downloading dashboard in Planning Analytics Workspace, Zoom Percentage of the slide should be 100 by default. Currently is is showing as 58%. First slide is having the Header name of the dashboard, there should be an option not to get this s...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Config option to raise an SQL error on inserting a too long string value

Inserting of any string value should not result with a silent automatic truncation of a given value and with an OK transaction result status. Exactly this is the default DBMS behaviour for non-ANSI databases.One solution for this could be the intr...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

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

Improvements to UPDATE STATISTICS LOW

The run time of UPDATE STATISTICS LOW can be reduced by setting the parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE which also reduces I/O by using a sampling algorithm. However the table data may be deemed to be too heavily skewed and the engine falls back to a full sca...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Additional Rest APIs for Package Management

add following features in Rest API to help package management 1) check package dependencies 2) check package and its application association - please make sure package_name is optional same as "soamdeploy view"
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered