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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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Add support for top level union schemas in Kafka Avro schema support

Support top-level unions for Avro schemas instead of just top-level record schemas. Example top-level union: ["null", { "type": "record", "name": "SampleRecord", "fields": [ { "name": "id", "type": "string" }, { "name": "name", "type": "strin...
1 minute ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

OIDC group users are not appearing when used in conjunction with LDAP is enabled.

Users as part of OIDC groups are not appearing when we are using "in conjunction with LDAP" option while setting up OIDC connection in our Cloud Pak instance. Our requirement is to use groups from both LDAP and OIDC. Here we would require to use b...
about 7 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Support to load LIST-MAP field type to Object Data Type in Snowflake

LexisNexis is consuming data from MongoDB and writing to Snowflake. The consumer stage always returns all fields as LIST-MAP type. Requesting to extend support for LIST-MAP fields to load into Object datatype? This would help us avoid additional t...
about 7 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Dataset Processing (CREATE, DELETE, EXTEND) should get a timelimit

We had an unimportant pageset, which was defined with ERASE YES. Due to the long timeframe of writing x'00' (ERASE YES) on the tracks of this pageset, another dataset processing (EXTEND) of a very important pageset waits and is timed out. This tim...
about 11 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Display Inactive DB2 Threads

It's not possible to effectively and efficiently manage a DB2 environment without visibility to inactive threads. My company has become accustomed to viewing those through our mainframe monitoring tools. As a new customer of Omegamon we would like...
about 11 hours ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Submitted

Massive update of enumerated field/picklist on different object type

An automatic procedure or tool that allows a bulk update/upload of "enumerate string" (picklist) in object type (ex. Business Entity, Risk or other) and the associated labels in different languages.
about 14 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Better error message when using incorrect dataset for recover tocopy

A PGR table with 5 partition have a combination of full Image copier and partition image copies. executing RECOVER TABLESPACE userid.table DSNUM ALL TOCOPY hlq.DB2.IC.userid.table.PART4 gave this error DSNUCATO - TOCOPY DATASET NOT FOUND but the d...
about 14 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

User can make individual subscription to Private Capture(Oracle Xstream) when needed.

Currently all subcription can be shared or all can be private. There is no way one subscription alone can be made private capture by user. (Setting the CDC Replication property use_staging_store=true, which is the CDC Replication product default. ...
about 15 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

allow export nested grid view as seen by UI

With the nested grid views, you can show record of an obj type and also, selected fields of childreen obj types... but you can not export this view in an unique sheet, but fastmap create separe sheet for each obj type. It's very required form cust...
about 15 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Enhance message DSNU180I with job name

When a utility collides with another utility we get message DSNU180I. It would help a lot it that message included the job name for the other utility execution. In our current case a COPY could not run as it is not compatible with the LOAD utility...
about 17 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review