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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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Chore overview to be available in a tabular view

Currently chores need to be opened to see the time at which they are scheduled. In most cases an administrator needs to look at a review of all chores to see when they are scheduled to run i.e. a table of Chore Name, Active Indicator, Frequency, S...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

User_id who executed DQ Rule to be made available in IKC BI Data Service Model table dq_rule_execution

We need to know which user executed the data rule. We use different users for live execution and for testing/investigations. We need to be able to filter out test runs from regulatory reporting.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

Table DQ_RULES in IKC Data Mart should have more metadata available

Table DQ_RULES in IKC Data Mart should have more metadata available. Columns CREATED_ON, CREATED_BY, MODIFIED_ON and MODIFIED_BY are missing
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Remove default grants to PUBLIC on SYSIBM tables

An IBM Db2 Security Health Check audit will identify a SELECT privilege held by PUBLIC on the SYSIBM tables as an issue, with specific concern when the privilege is held on the authorization tables (i.e. SYSIBM.SYS%AUTH%). The IBM Db2 Administrati...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

To encrypt all the data in FTM tables.

The client has identified a risk and asked us to implement encryption for all data stored in FTM (Financial Transaction Manager) tables in the FTM version 3.2.12 on z/OS
3 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Functionality already exists

MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

Excessive DBHEAP by BLU compression dictionaries

In current design, when SQL statement accesses a table, the compression and expansion dictionaries of that table will be read into DBHEAP and kept there until database deactivation. For column-based table, the memory consumption may up to 100MB. i...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 5 Functionality already exists

Add a field in MON_GET_TABLE function to check whether Restrict on drop is enabled or not for a table

Missing Restrict on Drop clause while creating table can be costly! (DB2LUW) DB2 LUW provides a clause called "Restrict on drop". This clause should be used while creating a table. With Alter statement it can be disabled too. Why missing this clau...
over 1 year ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

Allow for Altering the Partitioning Columns Through Panels

When altering the columns involved in partitioning a table, several steps must be done which introduces complexity and potential for errors. This is the current provided solution: Do a GEN on the table and save the generated DDL. Adjust the partit...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Monitor activities by the user

Regarding DMC capabilities, I would like to know if there is a possibility to monitor activities by the user. This is very important for our Db2 environment, whether qualified or unqualified table names are used (in case of unqualified names would...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 3 Functionality already exists