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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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Denodo support

We need Denodo support for DataStage using the Denodo JDBC drivers. Currently JDBC can be used, but connecting to Denodo is not supported by IBM.
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

DataStage Oracle/ODBC connector stage performance

We have IBM InfoSphere Platform and thousands of DataStage Jobs. Lot of these jobs use Oracle and ODBC connector Stage to connect to Oracle DBaaS database. These stages are running queries against system tables frequently and causing performance d...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

API Key option in platform connection for db2

Hello Team, I am trying to create platform connection on cp4d portal for db2u deployment but there is no option for API key authentication we need to supply mandatory values i.e. username and password I choose "IBM db2" while creating platform con...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Ability to create ASNMON Oracle Control Tables via GUI without Federated Server

We have QREP Data Replication established between DB2 Z/OS and Oracle on Linux. We are using Oracle Native Apply on the target DBMS. As per discussions and conclusions in the referenced PMR, 85301,442,000, we have 2 issues:1) We can not directly c...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Not under consideration

MFA Authentication to snowflake using OKTA

In our SNOWFLAKE Environment, Password login is disabled and authentication is through OKTA only for all users. When we are trying import a table from snowflake, it is asking for username and credentials. Since, users doesn't have credentials, the...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Provide Replication Center and Replication Dashboard functionality within DSM

We would like to see the Replication Center tool functionality for IIDR Queue Replication added under the Data Server Manager(DSM) Umbrella. Today we are using Replication Center to administer and monitor our IIDR Queue Replication environment. Th...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Allow the currentPackageSet property for insert buffering to be set in platform connections for DB2WH & DB2 to leverage performance improvements.

During Performance Load Testing with Db2Wh Gen3 LMCO noticed major performance improvements when enabling Db2 server side Insert Buffering :https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-enable-db2-server-side-insert-buffering-jdbc-type-4-applications But ...
10 months ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

zIIP Eligible Q-APPLY

Currently the SQL Queries in QREP Apply are CPU-intensive. The CPU cost of those queries cost more than our top 5 application programs combined. We recommend to make Q APPLY Queries zIIP eligible to reduce the CPU cost for QREP APPLY.
10 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...

location property exposed in bigquery connector

Is it possibile to consider exposing the location property in the bigquery connector such that a default location can be forced CP4D side? Executing jobs that use the statements SELECT FROM EXTERNAL TABLE while the bigquery database is located in ...
10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review