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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    Allow the SQL ALTER statement to convert SYNONYMS into ALIASES.

    We have over 800,000 synonyms across 100+ DB2 subsystems/data sharing groups to convert to aliases. In our production environments, the conversion of synonyms to aliases (DROP SYNONYM/CREATE ALIAS) is going to cause carnage because all of our prod...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Apply COS Object lock with a retention period and legal hold for Db2 database backups and log archival.

    •As part of the backup, the object(S) created in COS should get an object lock with retention period assigned. •This is used to prevent the backup image from being deleted for that period. Once the object lock expires, the backup image will be del...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Future consideration

    TLS encryption between Access Server (on Linux/Windows) and CDC Db2 for i

    We need TLS encryption between Access Server (on Linux/Windows) and CDC Db2 for i due to company security restrictions otherwise we can't use CDC with Db2 for i.
    about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

    Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

    Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
    over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

    Hide Aggregation Type On Charts

    Hi Team, On the cognos dashboard 11.2.4 version, there is a scenario where it is necessary to hide the aggregate type of fields on the charts, which appear as tooltips when you hover over the charts in brackets. The additional data from aggregatio...
    about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

    Restore database to another Db2 server with different endianness

    My customer is using RHEL Big Endian Linux on PPC and Db2 10.5 which is end of support April 30, 2020. They have no option but to migrate to RHEL Little Endian. They cannot simply backup and restore the database and are looking at using Db2move wh...
    about 7 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    Add the option to set AvroReadSupport.READ_INT96_AS_FIXED Flag in supported stages(Amazon S3 Origin)

    StreamSets Data Collector currently cannot read Parquet files containing INT96 timestamp columns, which were historically used by Apache Impala, older versions of Apache Spark, and Apache Hive for timestamp storage. When attempting to read these f...
    about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    Ability to select target workbook for an Export from PAFE Viewer

    Currently in PAFE, when a viewer window is opened, it is inherently tied to the active workbook when the viewer is opened. Thus, when converting the viewer to an Excel report type, the Excel report is created in that workbook. There should be addi...
    about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Convert lsfpollerd, licpollerd, and advocate to system managed service with Restart set to always

    SysV init.d scripts are rather old, and do not support the monitoring and restart capabilities in systemd. So, convert these init.d scripts to systemd support and add the Restart option so that admins are comfortable knowing that the operating sys...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

    FTM MER BAH

    FTM MER should allow the entry and repair of the BAH fields. I understand in the early days MX messages most messages did not have A BAH block. However, since FINplus the BAH is critical to the message and FTM MER should support it.
    about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Submitted

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