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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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Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data captured in long transactions with guaranteed delivery to destination

It is usefull because sometimes a very long transaction pass through the Capture process but can´t be delivered causing memory lack at destination. The benefit would be not losing the data transferred to the destination. One suggestion would be to...
11 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Needs more information

Bring MATLAB interface back for CPLEX

Please bring back the MATLAB interface for CPLEX. We rely heavily on this feature since toolboxes we use are Matlab exclusive.
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 34 Future consideration

CDC Agent support HA/cluster by product itself.

In banking production environment, CDC agent are often across multi platform for different database, and CDC HA solution have to depend on different technology tightly with OS and different OS version, such as AIX, Linux. and the HA stack is often...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

bhist json format output, similar to bjobs -json

Programatically parsing bhist output takes effort and susceptible to occasional changes across versions. json format output similar to bjobs -json would ease the handling of bhist output through scripts.
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Store User Settings on Backend

When a user needs to clear browser cache and cookies they need to reconfigure their user settings in Platform (Control Hub). Please consider storing these settings on the backend so that users do not need to do this. The need to reconfigure negati...
19 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Workbench also saving the database tree status

Currently the workbench preserves the status of the open tabs but the database tree visibility is managed elsewhere. The idea is that each workbench will keep its own tree visibility status. It would allow for a better separation of work between P...
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Detect connection status to data source

On several occasions the following scenario has occurred:Lost connection at the origin, however, the subscription remains in the "Mirroring continuous" state, but it is not actually replicating anything, since when validating at the database level...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Enhance Obsolete Package Cleanup

Be able to feed the existing obsolete package cleanup process with a user generated list of packages for cleanup.
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Needs more information

MER Message List - visible Values for Reference, Amount and Date for DNIMX messages

in DNIMX messages there is no visible values for Reference and Amount , it is difficult for users to find their message in message view
6 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Submitted