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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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Apply number format when editing a cell in PAW

We are using the german number format ("." as thousand separator and "," as decimal separator) in PAW. The format works fine for non-selected cells, but after a doubleklick into a cell the cell value is displayed with the default format (point as ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

MAss Disconnect of users

Currently , I am able to use Architect --> Server Manager --> Disconnect users and select the users or select ALL Users I wish to disconnect from my service. I am unable to find this same functionality in PAW. I am only able to disconnect in...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

File Connector - Definition for Internal table Location

We need the table location to be optional when we define it as an internal table. When the location is not user-defined, the Datastage must define the create table command, but it does not need to define the location. This is important because the...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should respect privileges granted to Roles/Groups and not require privileges to be granted explicitly to Users

This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. While installing Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW, we received the following err...
11 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0

Support JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE functions in Db2 z/OS

For updating and searching in JSON objects which are stored in Db2 tables we need the JSON functions JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE. They exist as a dummy in Db2 z/OS but are currently not supported, not documented and do not work. In Db2 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client (Fukuoka Financial Group) is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Cl...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

List of Necessary Improvements Post-Audit: Action Steps

Following an audit, the customer needs to correct the following non-compliant points (see attached document):- Rendered decoration images (page 7) - Identical or non-explicit button labels out of context (page 18) - Menus or modals not detected by...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Improvement of QREP to allow replication of data generated in the Db2 LOG by the LOAD utility with SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES.

Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario:- Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + Db2 v13 for z/OS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Negative Example Phrases for Action Triggers

Currently, actions in Watsonx Assistant allow one or more example phrases to trigger the action. In some cases, the addition of a specific word or phrase to these example phrases is an entirely different user intent. Adding negative example phrase...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted