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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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Enhance the processing of large db2dsdriver.cfg files with a large number of entries.

Larger customers with a significant number of database servers and databases have created db2dsdriver.cfg files with 1000's of database entries. The current method for processing these to make a connection is not very efficient and can significant...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate charge metrics in one location; Potentially spend of CPDaaS credits or tokens/units as well.

I want to be able to track my service technical usage or chargeable units across all services at an account level in the CPDAAS UI. Watson Studio does it in a project, DataStage has it's own way. WKC doesn't yet. As an administrator or owner, it w...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Functionality already exists

Insert to Code - Cloud API key

I am running through a lab where we are binding a project to a WML service or authorizing the project to WML Service. In the lab, we use an IBM Cloud API key in conjunction with the Import project token in the Notebook. Either the lab should be re...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 3 Planned for future release

Adding enableWLB via command db2cli writcfg add -dsn <alias> -parameter "enableWLB=true"

As discussed in PMR 01458,999,724 adding enableWLB parameter with "db2cli writecfg add..." is a known limitation.Could you please remove this limitation. Workaround is to edit XML-file db2dsdriver.cfg manually.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Required enhancement for Join stage in CP4D

Jion stage in CP4D is not showing key fields in properties tab instead its showing fields with common name from different tables. I tried key value property as well in source output ports.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 2 Is a defect

Single self-contained Windows DLL for .net5/6

With Oracle or Microsoft, we have the possibility to just reference one DLL to get full access to those RDBMS without driver installation. The latest Nuget packages are a nice addition, but publishing a project with VS releases the full clidriver ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Our business area has a requirement not allowing users to upload or download sensitive information directly to/from CP4D via files. wondering if uploading or downloading files could be disabled in CP4D?

We have business users from different units. Instead of disabling for all users, could this be done in fine grained and configurable? for example, could upload or download be configured to only apply to certain individual users or role? Some users...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Future consideration

Add SAP HANA to Cloud offering

We want to connect to our extensive SAP HANA investment. The functionality exists for on-prem CP4D, and we want to have it for our SaaS offering. As we've made the transition to cloud and most new SAP customers are also cloud-centric, none are abl...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0

Data refinery preview data set should be controlled and managed by the user

The end user of Data Analytics project in WKC should be enabled to control the Data refinery preview data set interactively and select data source subset, which will produce representative and meaningful output results without the need of running ...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Planned for future release

Call stored procedure from Cobol in SP

I have a Client that previously used this IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries connector, to execute local WEB sessions, they decided to go to the Azure Cloud, the only thing they changed to the SP was the IBM.Data.DB2.Core Connector, with its corresponding chang...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration