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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    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

    4GL Add Line Number to Character to numeric conversion error

    Currently 4GL does not report the line number of Character to numeric conversion errors in the error log. By adding the line number pesky conversion problems can be identified and resolved. Currently only the Date, Time, Error Number, and message ...
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

    Db2 Houskeeping of combination of Snapshot Backups and TSM Backups

    At the moment Db2 supports housekeeping of backups by DB configuration parameters rec_his_retent and num_db_backups. These parameters are used by the customer for years for Db2 TSM backups. Both parameters are set to a value of 8 - ensuring more t...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Alters to objects that require reorg to material should be put into advisory reorg, such as PCTFREE

    If an alter is done to a TS to PCTFREE and a REORG is not run, then the catalog is updated but the change is not materialized. This results in the DBA thinking it was done, but it really wasn;t.
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    need to provide a RENAME SCHEMA statement (other database products provide this)

    Need RENAME SCHEMA other databases other than DB2 LUW (i.e. MaxDB from SAP) provide a statement RENAME SCHEMA to rename a schema like a RENAME TABLESPACE/TABLE/INDEX. Needed on all supported operating systems.
    over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Percent/Dynamic/Automatic Value for NUM_LOG_SPAN

    NUM_LOG_SPAN species a number of log files. If the number of log files changes (LOGPRIMARY, LOGSECONDARY, LOGFILSIZ) the absolute number of NUM_LOG_SPAN should be adjusted as well. If NUM_LOG would be a percent value of the primary log files there...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Default action when accessing shared URL

    IBM Cognos analytics V11.0.8 introduced the capability to set a default action for reports. A report default action could be set to 'Run' which causes the report to run when the report is clicked in the interface regardless of the existence of a s...
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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