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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Remove need for plain text password when installing patches.

installUpdates command currently requires you to pass user credentials as plain text on command line.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Requestor enabled based at service level

Requestor only goes with application. We request to go at service level and or session level.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release

Slow running HPO jobs

We are seeing some latency on our platform when we submit a HPO job. When we submit a HPO job via WMLA we see that it is taking ~14 seconds to launch a trial in spite of asking number of parallel runs. Just to give you an idea, if we have latency ...
over 3 years ago in Openscale 1 Planned for future release

Export and Import Expressions To Management Console

Currently in Management Console if you want to use Expressions created by a co-worker the only way to utilized the Expression is to get the text from your co-worker and key it in. This is also the case when you first start using Management Console...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE INDEX SQLSERVER SUPPORT IN IDA

Clustered Columnstore/Rawstore Index feature is not present in IDA for the latest version. We are useing them for our data vaults, facts and dimensions were applicable but we can't used IDA for their specification.
over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Scrolling efficiencies and freeze panes functionality

Issue One Selector widgets and dimension pickers are at top of tab. We have a number of visualisations that user can interact with that extend the size of a standard screen. Every time they want to change a widget they have to scroll to top, make ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PDO_INFORMIX (CSDK > 2.9) do not recognize DBDATE environment variable

We are using Informix 12.10FC2WE (CSDK 4.1) with PHP and PHP is connected to the database by the PDO_INFORMIX Driver, which is based on the ODBC Driver. The Problem is that, the DBDATE environment variable is not recognized so the date values are ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Develop functionality to see amount of logs used per session

Create a functionality to check at any given time the number of logs that are using a session
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Audit policy with userid after a DB2 recycle.

Audit trace starting as per audit policy after a DB2 recycle does not contain USERIDs as per original trace. This is causing change captured SMF records due to a DB2 restart. Is it possible to update the audit policy system to capture trace qualif...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Import Catalog metadata from a CSV file from the Desktop

When I try to upload a CSV file from the desktop that just contains column names and no data, the catalog cannot display the column names because it seems to think the file empty. The workaround is to add a few rows of "data" to the file to make i...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration