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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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Integration between IKC RE and Business Lineage views

We're looking for a feature where we need - Integration between IKC RE and Technical Lineage views
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Online change of indexes

We would like to be able to alter indexes as an online change, regardless of whether it is a duplicate index or a unique index (in the latter case it will often be the addition of include columns). We often have changes to indexes in connection wi...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

The ability to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence directly on zOS

It would be useful for DB2 sysprogs to be able to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence to a database natively on zOS without the need to install the runtime client and run the db2connectactivate utility.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

FL LEVEL support

In Db2 12 the Functional Level is currently *not* externalized in various places where it most definitely should be. Notably the PLAN_TABLE, IFCID 316 and IFCID 401. If you are attempting tuning you *must* know under which FL level the SQL in ques...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

TFUI / Dashboard: allow hiding of Worflow Tabs

When users don't have access to Workflow, the Tabs "My Taks", "Subscription Tasks" and "Oversight Tasks" are empty and cause confusion for the users. Please add the capability that these tabs can be disabled for a specific Dashboard in the Dasboar...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Not under consideration

Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

CP4D - Restrict multiple users simultaneously opening the same flow to make changes - Addition of version name to the Dialog box.

This is in continuation of case #TS015396049. As of today, When two users open the same flow and one user change the flowed and saved it. There is a popup which gets displayed with the second user on who changed it and time as well. in addition to...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Submitted

Generating Dataset record layout option should be available for the files in program flow graph

Hi Team, Once program flow graph is generated which is having references to files, If we right click on file it shows only Filter and properties option. Currently we should copy the file name and go to explore project , select Dataset record struc...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

Impact analysis based on Data flow graph

Hi Team, Currently when we generate data flow graph , it goes with JCL/PROC/STEP/DD/Files hierarchy. We can show the control flow clearly from source file to destination file. At the same time if we have to show the data traceability from one of t...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review