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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    Backup Individual database, not entire instance

    Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    "Prevent the dbschema command from incrementing sequence values"

    Currently, running dbschema increments the value of sequences, even when it is documented it is the expected behavior, we consider that it is not desireable.
    12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Import PoweDesigner VIEWS in .pdm files

    For Teradata Physical Data Models in PowerDesigner, the VIEWS are very important. When importing these Physical Data Models into IBM Knowledge Catalog, the VIEWS are not imported. All the data modeling tools that we know (PowerDesigner, ER Studio,...
    almost 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Not under consideration

    Reread SSL Keystore while Informix is running

    To renewing the SSL Keystore Files it is neccesary to restart the whole DB Engine / Connection Manager, when the keystore Files have been changed. A "reread keystore" Function would be very helpfull, and would save a lot of Time and reduce downtim...
    6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Lineage for Dynamic views

    In IBM Knowledge Catalog, there is a special asset type called "dynamic view" that allows you to create an asset based on an SQL query. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.2.x?topic=project-adding-dynamic-view-data-from-connection A...
    6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

    add an option in Informix HQ to surpress alerts during HQ start up

    When we have HQ monitoring in place on HQ agent status and IDS status, if we have server OS restart/rebuild, HQ alerts will be triggered. We prefer there could be an option to tell HQ not to generate alert during scheduled outage/scheduled server ...
    3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    File based ingestion using IBM Manta Data Lineage

    Nordea cannot connect direct DB technologies for security reasons and require file based Data Lineage and metadata ingestion for following connectors - ORACLEMSSQLHiveMicrosoft SSISMicrosoft SSASPowerBIInformaticaJava
    3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

    License Scheduler - Minimum Preemption Time

    It's been observed when the license scheduler preempts a job to free up license resources, the job can occasionally be resumed within 1-2 seconds if license features are freed up during that time. This leads to behavior where processes do not prop...
    5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Functionality already exists

    Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

    Why is it useful? We have some legacy COBOL files that errors out with parsing error since it follows a different coding pattern for comments. The comments are included between REMARKS. and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in COBOL program. Currently, Manta d...
    3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

    Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

    LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
    10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

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