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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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index based restore of a table space from backup image file

Want to restore the contents of a tablespace from a backup.
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Add function LISTAGG like DB2 and Oracle

Every query which need to group by and concat few columns is impossible with informix. For example for this SQL : select t.tabname, c.constrname ,k.checktext, k.seqno from sysconstraints c, systables t , outer syschecks k where t.tabname = 'my...
almost 6 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Watchdog/Timeout option for jobs, so jobs that run longer than x minutes are stopped

There are situations where WML and /or spark jobs are hanging/ running to long. My CP4D job developer have a good understanding of how long a job should run. In case of longer running jobs I as a CP4D administrator want that these jobs are aborted...
over 3 years ago in Openscale 0 Not under consideration

Ordering Table Names and Column Names in Data Modules

When working in framework manager, I am able to sort columns alphabetically which makes the metadata easier for everyone to use. It looks like there isn't a way to do this in Data Modules in CA currently.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Auth token renewal feature in the HTTP destination

Please refer to the support case TS018758718 and engineering intervention INT-3254.
5 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

In PAW, the "Set Permission dialog" for Apps and Plans does not include the checkbox.

When we migrate the Apps and Plans from Sandbox(Source) to DEV environment (Target), Set Permissions for app/Plan are showing grayed out. not able to change the Permissions. Hence we are looking for checkbox to override the permissions from Parent...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Is there a reason why OSV hypervisor is not supported with DataStage 11.7.1?

We were informed by IBM support Engineers that OSV hypervisor does not support DataStage 11.7.1. We would like to know why this is not supported. Also, did IBM test this OSV hypervisor on DataStage 11.7.1. Can you please provide elaborated informa...
10 months ago in DataStage 1

Options to make the Custom environment template to be available in all projects/Deployment spaces

Whenever there are some vulnerabilities reported against the packages in We have been creating custom images and requesting users to create new custom environment with the new s/w config pointing to the new image. Users are feeling it hard to crea...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Integration with IBM data replication CDC

We have many customers with CDC and this integration would allow us to upsell databand on those accounts. CDC customers want to make sure the replication process deliver reliable data and want to be alerted whenever the data replication fails. its...
over 2 years ago in Databand / Integration 1 Future consideration