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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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QREP DDL replication, add UNICODE factor for column length

When replicating from non-unicode to unicode, the legth of char/varchar target columns needs to be extended. Example: create all CHAR/VARCHAR columns at the target with source_length*2 and implemented an additional life belt with OKSQLSTATES = 220...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

IPM FP12, Using encrypted DB password means DB maintenance scripts cannot be automated

Ref - PMR TS004780329. Raising RFE as suggested by Support team. In DB.XML, we use the db_password_encrypted option, this is for security compliance reasons, and cannot be avoided. Since we implemented this, certain DB maintenance scripts now ask ...
almost 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Data Flow Designer GitHub/BitBucket Integration

We are using bitbucket through command line for all our code migration activities. We were hoping to see Data Flow Designer provide a UI based integration with BitBucket and GitHub. However the gap is that for the connectivity to work, GIT needs s...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

NLU PT-BR model

The NLU Service has wrong (and very) misinterpreted feelings for some very trivial phrases, following some recent examples of phrases that it returns "0". • Pelo bom atendimento da Loja e pela qualidade dos carros. • Carros muito confiáveis, si...
almost 4 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Client is looking for custom screen, custom fields, and search options in the FTM4SWIFT MER screen.

Currently, In MERVA environment client using custom MERVA screen and custom fields to journal (Message Tracking) all incoming/outgoing FIN SWIFT messages as well re-routing activities within MERVA branches/users. For All the Message Types, the fo...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Functionality already exists

Option/ Data Tree for recently used data elements

Instead of selecting the data elements from data tree for dashboards and reports, user should be able to select the data elements from the "recently used" list of data elements.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Fix to enable pureScale support with Red Hat KVM on Power

There is a PCI Passthrough issue on Red Hat KVM that would probably not be fixed by Red Hat until V7.4 at the earliest. LTC has proposed an alternative approach to avoid the contention that pureScale is using PCI Passthrough to address.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

energy usage reporting (EAS) not working on intel x86_64 servers

During the testing of EAS on my Dell/HPE hardwares running Linux/CentOS - I figured out that various features in EAS is not really working on these hardwares and they may be only designed for IBM Hardware like Power Systems. Worked with Support on...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

host power management 'EAS' feature for x86_64 h/w

During the testing of EAS on my Dell/HPE hardwares running Linux/CentOS - I figured out that various features in EAS is not really working on these hardwares and they may be only designed for IBM Hardware like Power Systems. Worked with Support on...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Helping manage the icons that appear for

We are a large company with heavy dependency on Cognos Controller, for our consolidation process. Since IBM cannot hold more than 4 DBs in 1 environment, we have 5 - Dev 1, 2 & 3 (2&3) being for reference and Staging and Prod. With all the...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration