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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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Add DISCARD row count from Reorg to Utility history SYSOBJEVENTS table.

We would like to record details of discarded rows in the Db2 Utility History Object Event Details table. Capturing this information alongside the utility execution metadata, including the job name and execution details, would provide a valuable au...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Connecting to Amazon Neptune

The customer has a graph database on Amazon Neptune and wants to establish a connection between CP4D and Neptune so they can create machine learning models using those databases (and leveraging the GPUs available on CP4D). As a workaround, we will...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Implement Oracle Connection Manager in default connector

Oracle Connection Manager is a widely implemented and popular enterprise feature that adds a proxy layer before Oracle databases, exposing services such as session multiplexing, access control, and protocol conversion. Cloud Pak for Data should al...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

DB2 Load/Reorg failure - unable to drain scenario - request to issue -DIS USE in addition to -DIS CLAIMERS

When a DB2 load or reorg utility fails due to being unable to perform a drain, only a DIS CLAIMERS is issued at the end of the retries to show the correlation id of what was preventing the drain. Our shop's DDF work is categorized under common cor...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

zIIP enable DB2 utility COPYTOCOPY

In my shop we use DB2 Flash Copy Image Copy (FCIC) to create image copies of all our production DB2 data. This is very fast and uses very little CPU. However these copies are still on disk. To have copies on a different media we create a tape copy...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

SAP Odata connector must support filters applied on properties that are not present in the returned dataset

Currently, the connector is able to filter based on the properties returned in the dataset by composing URLs like:.../YPP_CP_TASK_CP4DResults?$filter=A4YPP_CP_TASKZCPR_PROJ eq '802-P0009'. The SAP OData service allows the definition of properties ...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

REORG DISCARD for RTS history tables

The history data collected in SYSTABSPACESTATS_H and SYSIXSPACESTATSS_H are filled so quickly and causes huge impact on catalog and directory storage group. However the only maintenance mechanism available at the moment is delete command with wher...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Paging through many data assets

My project team has tens of thousands of data assets in a project and they need to work with all of those assets from the assets view, but it's difficult to do so (in version 5.1.3). They want to publish all the data assets to a catalog. 1) They c...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted