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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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Improve early exit/early close SQL processing in partitioned environments

In partitioned Db2 environments (MPP), where SQL statements are processed in parallel by multiple partitions and multiple agents on each of them, certain SQL might execute much longer due to processing a section of an SQL (and access plan) that co...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

One Request Per Batch Functionality for Web Client Stages

The option is there to have one request per batch in the stage, but nothing is populating the request body. The current workaround is to aggregate the records from the batch into a single record using the following Groovy script and configuring th...
7 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Auth Token Renewal in Web Client Stages

This is mentioned in the documentation: Note: When using OAuth, all per-status actions configured for 401 Unauthorized and 403 Forbidden statuses are ignored. Instead, the stage generates a new OAuth token. If the same error occurs again, the stag...
7 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Gestures when working with widgets in books should align with other applications

In applications like Excel, Powerpoint etc. if you are working with shapes, images etc. you can drag them around by clicking the object then dragging. Using various key combinations in addition to dragging allows you to get a range of outcomes: ...
22 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

LOAD could end with RC=08 when no columns are detailed and lose data after VARCHARs

When a table has a column with varying length (VARCHAR, VARBINARY) and other columns after it, LOAD needs the column description in SYSIN to be loaded correctly, and ends with RC=00 (or RC=04 if remains CopyPend state). But if you forget to explic...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg job in SDSNSAMP.

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg in job in SDSNSAMP which would contain the appropriate parameters to obtain 85-90% of the maximum performance available from IBM's DB2 Reorg utility. It would be useful for everyone who runs DB2 on ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

DB2 inplace reorg, pause before TRUNCATE

Inplace Reorg acquires a share lock on the table, when empty pages are to be released after the reorg.To avoid this LOCK the parameter NOTRUNCATE TABLE could be used. But this leaves the pages allocated to the table object.It cannot be determined ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Make scroll cursors more consistent when lists/collections are involved

This RFE is for removing the protection to disable collection types in scroll cursor at the prepare phase, and fail only at runtime if the cursor retrieves a row greater than row limit.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
9 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review