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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    Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

    Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
    6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Use Query Logs for Lineage and Usage Analysis

    Lineage collection today depends on explicitly defined data flows and relationships between data assets. This process leaves holes in the data lineage flows. However, if IKC could start collecting, analyzing and parsing query logs during Metadata ...
    1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    DB2 inplace reorg, pause before TRUNCATE

    Inplace Reorg acquires a share lock on the table, when empty pages are to be released after the reorg.To avoid this LOCK the parameter NOTRUNCATE TABLE could be used. But this leaves the pages allocated to the table object.It cannot be determined ...
    7 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    Manta option to show aggregated node counts

    It would be nice to have an option that shows the aggregated amount of child nodes at each level of the tree in the Manta UI, on the lineage selection page . This could be for instance a UI option or configuration option. The idea is that the cust...
    1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Improve early exit/early close SQL processing in partitioned environments

    In partitioned Db2 environments (MPP), where SQL statements are processed in parallel by multiple partitions and multiple agents on each of them, certain SQL might execute much longer due to processing a section of an SQL (and access plan) that co...
    19 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    Implement vault access for storing passwords (instead of storing them in config files)

    IBM provides Db2 LDAP plug-in modules capabilities as e. g. described here for Db2 v12.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1.x?topic=support-configuring-ldap-plug-in-modules There are two parameters (keys) listed, namely SSL_PW and SEARCH_PW. Th...
    19 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

    Enabling a configurable dump directory for all automatically generated diagnostic files

    Currently, Db2 does not support redirecting automatically non -FODC (EDU dumps, stack , “flight recorder” ) dump files to a custom dump directory; instead these files are always written to DIAGPATH. Enabling a configurable dump directory for all a...
    22 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    Only records, which are valid at the current point in time should be considered in RUNSTATS

    In environments where SQL queries typically consider only the data that is valid at the time of query execution, statistics based on exactly those records provide higher quality than statistics collected over the entire table. In environments with...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    AWS Glue Scanner for lineage

    Many customer are based in AWS and wants to trace lineage from that platform including AWS Glue. Currently, we have Supervielle at Argentina that needs to include this scanner to complete their IKC SaaS functionality.
    4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

    Support export of Matillion lineage from Manta to Alation

    Why is it useful ? Alation at the enterprise is the application for viewing all catalog and metadata across the enterprise. Lineage from Manta is exported to Alation to build the catalog. Who would benefit from it ? Any LOB at the bank looking to ...
    6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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