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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Drive Explorer - Sort by File Type should sort by file type text, not ascii character codes

When sorting by file type in Drive Explorer, if sorted ascending, RUX files appear before cho and all other lower case file types. I opened a ticket and was told this is because the sort is done by ascii character code. This defeats the purpose of...
10 minutes ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

High number of LOCK reqeusts against one LOCK1 structure need relief

We have a very high volume of lock requests against LOCK1 CF structure. This number increases month by month. Of course, the LOCK1 structure does not scale infinitely, therefore we need a relief here.
about 1 hour ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add metrics to distinguish between a real active DBAT and a "cached" DBAT if High Performance DBAT is used

If High Performance DBAT is activated there is no flag in -DIS THREAD or in IFCIDs to distinguish between a real active DBAT (processing work) or a "chached" DBAT waiting for work. In a high volume environment as in our shop, it is critical to ide...
about 2 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

API for IKC workflow

Customer needs to automate all configuration uisng APIs ads part of their Devops pipeline automation. However worflow API's are not available and hence IKC API's need to be enhanced to include it for successfull deployment.
about 4 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Request to develop "Apply for Spanner" with GCP Spanner as CDC target

Our cloud applications use GCP Spanner as DB that support Strong-ACID compliance writes with TrueTime ordering. Hence requesting IBM to develop "Apply for Spanner" which can build on "Apply for BigQuery" already developed by IBM. It will also be g...
about 10 hours ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Enhancement request for DELETE method support in Write mode in Redshift connector

It seems we currently don't have DELETE method in Write mode of Redshift Connector stage. We know that we can use "user-defined" sql statement with positional parameters to use DELETE statement, but we want to use DELETE method in Write mode in Re...
about 12 hours ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Conceptual overlays in Manta should support ingestion via git or REST API

Why is it useful? This help technical data stewards (TDS) who wants to create perspective on top of existing data lineage in Manta to simply the lineage for BDS (Business data stewards or auditors/regulators). Currently, perspective can be created...
about 14 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Lowercase usernames configuration option

Requesting an optional configuration feature to force lowercase username during the account creation process. As Safer Payments does not notify the user in case a username a of different capitalizations, it is both error-inducing and operationally...
about 16 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Extended Access Management Logging

As of Safer Payments 6.7, the logs do not provide log details on: Created/Updated user accounts permission Created/Updated user accounts global settings Old vs new values for updated account settings fields The lack of this feature translates as h...
about 17 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Access Management Maker/Checker Roles

Safer Payments 6.7 is lacking the configurability of defining maker/checker roles for access management. This requirement reduces operational risk and is essential to a sensitive platform such as Safer Payments. An approach to implementing this fe...
about 17 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted