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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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Allow a MASS DELETE as a recovery point for a tablespace

As we discussed in case TS019823289, we believe it's necessary to be able to use a MASS DELETE (recorded in SYSCOPY) as a recovery point for a tablespace. This would avoid reading large amounts of log files that, in our view, aren't necessary. We ...
2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Microstrategy Reports and Dossier objects with prompts support

Customer is concerned about documents and reports with prompts, as according to our approach we can only get object metadata if we execute the documents, what would happen with such objects that contain prompts? MicroStrategy will only execute doc...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Delivered

Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

Why is it useful? We have some legacy COBOL files that errors out with parsing error since it follows a different coding pattern for comments. The comments are included between REMARKS. and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in COBOL program. Currently, Manta d...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Will like to see default change for enableSysplexWLB from false to true since this property is mostly applicable to Db2 z/OS

We have lots and lots on JDBC connections to our Db2 z/OS servers. We also have a very large number of Db2 z/OS subsystems. About 98 % of those are Data Sharing. We are seeing large concentration of connections on only one particular member of the...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

SAS: Support PROC RANK

Background: When Manta (42.13) comes across SAS code that uses PROC RANK, it ignores that block of code and does not draw lineage for that block. For example, when this code is used: proc rank data=T_NOT_98_&mth. TIES=DENSEout=T_NOT_98_1_&...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

Support for TM1 connection in SPSS and WML

Adobe is working on a use case where they would like to read data from TM1 (Planning analytics), run timeseries analysis using SPSS and Watson Machine learning and feed the result back to TM1. They are doing this work on Cloud Pak for Data on IBM ...
about 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Delivered

Requesting an option to control whether the job (high availability load) should run or fail if an accelerator is unavailable

In today's environment, HALOAD job fails if one of the accelerators is unavailable, and it impedes table data refresh on all accelerators in the job. Allowing HALOAD job to continue execution by skipping the unavailable accelerator will mitigate t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Delivered

Modeler Flow needs to be able to update or delete & insert records into the DB table

In our customer's usecases, we export data to DB tables as several way. 1. Insert (simply appending) 2. Update 3. Update and insert 4. Delete all records and insert 5. Create new table and insert (with schema settings) SPSS Modeler's "database e...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler 3 Delivered

Connector (source / destination stage) for Windows File Share

Clients have existing windows file shares and want the ability to read and write to Windows File Share
10 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Include 'Description' in white space of object box

White space in object box should contain description of report or object. Currently it is wasted white space.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration