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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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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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Option to suppress/disable diagnostic sections in the SHOW STEPS report for IBM Optim z/OS

Problem Statement: In IBM Optim v11.7, the SHOW STEPS report automatically displays additional diagnostic sections-specially Untraversed Table(s), Unselected Relationship(s), and Unknown Relationship(s).  This functionality introduces unwante...
2 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Certify Pack for SAP Applications for SAP S/4HANA 2025 (FPS01)

We are integrating IBM InfoSphere DataStage (11.7.0.2) with SAP S/4HANA 2025 FPS01 on-premise using the ABAP Extract Stage and Pack for SAP Applications 8.1. IBM Support (case TS022982575) confirmed that SAP S/4HANA 2025 is not yet certified with ...
5 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable recursive relationship processing for single table

IBM InfoSphere Optim should support recursive relationships when an Access Definition contains a single table. Currently, the Access Definition and Steps utility recognize the recursive relationship and display the expected processing steps, inclu...
10 days ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
about 1 year ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

connect to sqlserver 2025

Dear IBM Support and Product Management Team, We would like to formally submit a Request for Enhancement (RFE) for the support of Microsoft SQL Server 2025 in IBM InfoSphere Optim. Our organization is currently evaluating and planning the adoption...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 0 Submitted

Compact EXPLAIN report

SQLPA report provide all info once, like 1) Index or Tablespace scan 2) Used Index name and its key columns, 3) All alternate indexes with key columns etc. I'd like to see the access path used only at the initial report, and when I am not satisfie...
15 days ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Submitted

Revert ANLPQBR1 panel to table based version in SQLPA 5.1

The ANLPQBR1 panel has been changed from to table version (SQLPA 5.1) to a one-line-per-screen version (SQLPA 5.2). This makes it near impossible to work through an access-path, using the typical PLAN_TABLE 'table format' which has been around for...
3 months ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Under review

Add support for Oracle quoted table names containing forward slashes

IBM Optim Data Privacy currently does not support Oracle tables whose names contain forward slashes (/) and are created as quoted identifiers. These table names are commonly used by SAP ECC (for example, /BEV3/CHBPAKNA1S and /WATP/VMOBMROIA). Alth...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 0 Submitted

Schema Validation using Avro File Format under File Connector stage (AvroStreams)

Schema Validation exists with old avro1.x version but not with Avrostreams. Schema vadliation should be always available Avrostreams which avoid CLASSPATH setting.
11 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

We need new Installer which can support installing IIS with Db2 v12.1 directly

We are building an IIS environment with IIS v11.7.1.6 and Db2 v12.1.5.I see that Db2 v12.1.5 is supported recently. InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.6 Service Pack 3 Announcement How to upgrade Db2 11.5 to version 12.1 for IBM InfoSphere Infor...
28 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted