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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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MDI Job to eliminate System tables

So when we run an MDI Job by selecting all the Schemas available in the Connected Data Source, after the MDI Completes the Job status gets failed & when we try to troubleshoot by navigating into the Job we can see it is failed due to of System...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Non-disruptive add column not null with no default

Currently, the conversion of a new NOT NULL column without default at the end of a table is done via an UNLOAD / DROP / CREATE / LOAD A content (default) is generated for the column during the unload in order to be able to load this column afterwa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

Support REBALANCE PARTITIONS for Integrated Sychronization

If a rebalance of a partition tablespace is done on a table with Integrated Sychronization, the table will be place in error status and have to be reloaded. Replication of these operations to increase availability and usability of an Accelerator.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Ability to add columns to DB2 z/OS tables without impacting IDAA or incremental update

Currently, adding a column to a DB2 z/OS table that is using IDAA with incremental update involves: 1) Adding the column in DB2 z/OS2) Stopping replication for all IDAA tables3) Dropping the affected table from IDAA4) Adding the affected table bac...
over 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Display Indexes and their columns, within QMF for Workstation, for each table. RFE 122333

We have application developers who use QMF for Workstation to write and run their SQL. From time to time, we are asked what indexes exist for specific tables, and their columns. If would be nice if QMF provided this information.
over 7 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

Customize the default table size beyond the current limit of 5

The current table display size is set to 5 rows by default. Users requires more entries in a table to reduce the amount of work an end user needs to perform when using skills that retrieve resumes (for example). Their users use laptops, so screen ...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Temporal Base Table SQLOUT INSERTS have generate always columns as part of the insert

The timestamp columns supporting temporal should not be part of the INSERT. Also anytime a generate always column is excluded as it should have been in this run, columns must be added to the INSERT statement. --UNDO SQL FOR SUBSYSTEM: DAA1 --L...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered

Generate drop of foreignkeys if foreignkey-statement is not provided

We generate DDL on the basis of an external tool and compare the newly generated DDL for each changed DB2 object against the catalog and let Admintool generate the conversion strategy as a workstatement list. Whether an object has changed or not r...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance the MDI scope configuration to retain previously selected tables when updating the scope.

Currently, when users configure the MDI scope and select specific tables, they must reselect all tables each time they update the scope. This process can be tedious and time-consuming, especially for users working with large datasets. By implement...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

LOAD a TABLE with WHEN / DISCARD

When loading a table with WHEN and DISCARD, rows that do not qualify because of the WHEN condition get "discarded" and:- discard file is populated with them- it is impossible to distinguish records discarded because of the WHEN clause and e.g. the...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered