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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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Table Values functionality

Is it possible to add following functionality to DB2 zos 10, 11 and IDAA 4.1 and above. Apparently it is supported in DB2 LUW. SELECT S.Year, Q.Quarter, Q.ResultsFROM SalesAgg AS S, TABLE (VALUES(1, S.q1), (2, S.q2), (3, S.q3), (4, S.q4)) AS Q(Qua...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Selective Suppression of DB2 maintained System History

There are times when it is not desirable to create a new DB2 maintained system history row if the values in the columns of the base table have actually not changed. DB2 already suppresses the actual update of a non-temproal table if none of the co...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Report Template for use with Powerplay Cubes in Report Studio

With the deprecation of Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics on Cloud, we need a template that can be used to quickly start a user creating a report. Powerplay Studio would automatically create a pivot table with the first two dimensions in the mo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Completely drop storage of all data and index partitions with truncate table command

I just truncated 2 huge tables, after "alter table extent size nnnn".. It took a while for the storage to come down to new extent size, but only table partition shrunk. Index partitions was unaffected, still huge.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Tooltips for Various LSF Attributes

Today, on many Cacti pages, table headers include tooltips that explain the dimensions that are displayed in the table. It would be nice to have that for the 13 standard load indexes in LSF, and be able to pull the description from lsf.shared for ...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

clone table : add the same new column automaticly to the inactive table

When you add a new column to the active table, add the same column automaticly to the inactive table. (Similar to what happens when you add a new column in temporal tables)
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

restore to point in time when using external table with archecker

With IDS11.7 , when using external table, I could only restore the table being deleted from the instance Level 0 backup with archecker, can't restore those data from logical log. If i use normal table, archecker could restore the data from both th...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Change InfoSphere Information Server Pack version 8003 EHP6 to make suitable for SAP CRM by switching off SAP ECC components

During the import of the 8.003 EHP6 in SAP CRM we encountered some issues: Issue 1.Request for Enhancement:Change all reference who don't exists in CRM:BWOM2_TIMEST have to be commented since table BWOM2_TIMEST does not exist in CRM.Change type RK...
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Document conversion should retain the original order of the document

Currently Discovery pulls tables, headings, footers and other Smart Document Understanding elements into their own array. This disrupts the flow of the original document, for instance the subheading is separated from the paragraph that immediately...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

BID lock avoidance on MDC tables

2 DMLs working on different dimensions on MDC can lead to deadlock when this should not happen. Ref: case TS000003442
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration