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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Reorg blocking applications when using "allow write access"

While an "allow write acces" online reorg is running lock-wait contention can happen based on the number of rows being updated by an application. The locks for the application can escalate to lock an x lock. If this situation happens, the reorg sh...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

DB2 Table space monitoring possible with IBM OMEGAMON for Db2 Performance Expert on z/OS / Agent

Based on the Agent Builder, we have established Db2 tablespace monitoring in our ITM environment. We have coded our own agent using the agent builder to do tablespace monitoring on a continuous basis (customized SQLs). Tho maintain this solution t...
9 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Audit user Group Management Activity

In IBM Cognos Analytics, as an administrator, I am tasked with adding and removing users from various groups based on organizational needs. However, despite having necessary admin rights , there is no visibility of this activity on Cognos Logs. Th...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

MDI>Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection. [For Teradata and Oracle exclude scenario is working fine]

While creating MDI job Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection and its working for other connections like Teradata and Oracle. we need the same option to be worked for GCP Big Query connection also.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Provide LOBS support for columns over 32kb

There is currently no LOBS support for columns over 32kb in BigSQL Hadoop tables. For column which size is over 32KB, there's a limitation on the DDL when creating the table (maximum size is 32672), hence whole data/string couldn't be retrieved wh...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

RID problem instrumentation improvement

The IFI 2 & 3 fields QISTRLLM and QISTRPLM and the RID fields in the 316 and 401 are all basically “useless” these days to actually detect a RID related limit problem. I know that the QXRFMIAP is available in the IFI 2 & 3 but it is needed...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBM i does not support XML data type

1. Problem description – IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBMi does not support XML data type. When you want to replicate the data of a table using CDC, but the table contains a column of XML data type, CDC indicates that replication is n...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Violation of referential integrity - enrich the inaccurate messagetext DSNT408I for sqlcode -530 with parent <> child information

If the insert in a child table is not successful because the foreign key value does not match with a primary key value for a given relationship DB2 sends DSNT408I. Looking into this messagetext you will find only the name of the relationship. That...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration