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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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Improvement in Db2 LOAD UTILITY processes associate with data replication via Qrep

-Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario: Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + DB2 v13 for zOS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable support for worksheet function DefineCalc in Websheets

In an enterprise Planning Analytic model, reports are often presented in PAW and in a structured way. I.e. there are timescales, approval hierarchies etc etc, formal processes. In other words, it isn't users making things up on the fly. A cornerst...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Future consideration

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Future consideration

Capability to add "embedded hyperlinks" to text attributes.

We have some custom text attributes where we are storing hyperlinks to some external content. We offer for example attributes for links to business information model, and for the technical assets stored in another software. It would make things ne...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Future consideration

cDb2 Database names shown in Manta Flow Server lineage should match Database names used in underlying Connection String

We saw an issue while scanning cDb2 Databases in Manta, it shows the databases names that comes from the database engine. In other words, the values that is shown while running the command: 'VALUES (CURRENT SERVER);` in the databases is shown and ...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

View Job Step Status As In Cognos 10

This is the same issue as: https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/CA-I-2931 In Cognos 10.2, users had an option to "View the details ... after closing this dialog" when running objects (i.e. reports, views, jobs) in the background. This was es...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration
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Provide an external interface to check for manual runstats statistics collection

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DB2 currently provides AUTOMATIC STATISTICS COLLECTION as part of automated table maintaince which uses an internal evaluation algorithm to determine the necessity to perform a (then automated) RUNSTATs collection. We are asking for an external me...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
over 2 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

RDS Hierarchies - Child and Parent Duplicates

We have a requirement to load states/provinces/districts (children) for all countries (parent). The same state could exist in multiple countries. e.g., BADEN in Germany and BADEN in Switzerland. Both are valid, but CP4D sees them as duplicates. Th...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

General behaviour of opening the set editor from Pafe Task Pane.

Problem 1 : If you select edit set from a specific subset then you don’t get to that subset, you get to the default (if defined) or the All Roots, not a logical step. Even more confusingly the header for the set editor gives the set name you opene...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration