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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

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Modernizing ADABAS: Optimizing INSERT into Adabas Virtual Tables

One of the key points in a modernization project for a site with Adabas is to “normalize” Adabas Data Model. DVM offers a normalized Data Model for any Adabas file, converting MU/PE fields into auxiliary Tables. This normalization has a cost: you ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Build a Informix HQ server Container

The current process for deploying Informix HQ servers and agents across 600+ sites involves manually redoing scripts and configuration files for each site. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale as it requires individu...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Enable migration of REST service at Operation level

We are using DVM REST Service to implement online applications. The business applications are grouped by functionality in various REST Services. Within each application, specific rules are implemented as DVM REST Operation. Application developers ...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Impossibility to close the previously opened session in the Administrative Console

The client claims that if they go outside the Administrative console without logout, to log in again, they have to wait for the logout timeout because the system does not allow them to close the previous session.
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Enable use of encrypted passwords to test connections to databases in the DVM JGate Server interface

A successful “Test Connection” must be completed to “Add new relational data source name and connection parameters” using the DVM JDBC Gateway Server interface. To perform the “Test Connection” a valid userid and password with access to the data s...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

CM should support majority-vote failover arbitration as an alternative to priority-based

Currently, the Informix Connection Manager handles failover arbitration on the basis of a priority setting in the ${CMCONFIG} file. This has the effect of making a single CM the judge, jury and executioner when it comes to failover events. And it ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

RMF Data Portal | Total Logical Utilization (IIP) (percent)

We use the RMF Data Portal to see the graphics. There is direct link for "% total physical utilization (IIP)" on RMF Data Portal but there is no direct link for "% total logical utilization (IIP) (percent)" . When we want to look at the total logi...
7 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Offer a Hibernate SQL Dialect for Adabas

Hibernate is a famous and very extended persistence development framework in Java community.It includes what is called SQL Dialect for different DDBB providers to create correct SQL statements from Java code. We missed Adabas one, and when using "...
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

LVARCHAR support via 4GL application

Due to the implementation of a number of new functionalities and the constantly growing database, we have to switch tables from CHAR to LVARCHAR in several Bank systems, this functionality will save space but also make queries in the database more...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Use RACF resource to control access to DVM JDBC Gateway Server databases

Currently USERID and PASSWORD info needs to be updated and maintained in the DVM AVZDRATH job in order for DVM users to access different DRDA databases. The AVZDRATH job needs to be updated monthly whenever a user’s password changes or when a user...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration