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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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New Function UNHEX

New Function UNHEX (name subject to change/negotiation) We have a system where all CHAR columns are defined FOR BIT DATA. It seemed genius at the time to save a few bytes of data, not realizing the negative impact in future maintainability and in ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Time Sync Issue - Needs to be fixed

This is for the known issue Link - https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/defect/aCIKe000000fywC/dt392450?language=en_US
about 2 months ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

We would like assign a secondary category for a term that is under the same root parent category (IGC 'referencing categories' allows this behaviour)

We have a possiblity to assing a secondary category to a term but it is not possible to use this functionality when the secondary category is under the same parent as the term. We are using this functionality to keep terms under the primary catego...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

IKC workflow mail notifications fine-tuning

If user is receiving lots of notifications from workflows, it would be good to have a bit more convenient e-mail content. Now when the e-mail notifications are created, the subject line basically says "Notification: Your task is completed" or some...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

In case of wrongly formatted Ipv4

When a message send with Ipv4 elemnt where the context of it doesn't fulfill the requirement of Ipv4 format, there is no SP response sent back to the source. Instead they get to see only “Error: socket hang up”. It would be perfect if SP would be ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Identify User created procedure

As per case opened with IBM 'TS005358731' , currently it is not possible to identify user created function/procedure . so kindly develop a mechanism to identify user and system related function/procedures.
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

informix can restrict ip/host to connect with DB .

currently we have not option in Informix DB to restrict ip or any host to connect with DB or instance, i think ibm need to add this facility in new version.
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Lock and Unlock element in PAW

We need functionality of locking and unlocking element in PAW, same like Architect. In Architect when we lock an element (by right click element > security > lock/unlock), it will not overwrite existing READ/WRITE access to groups. But when ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

ELIGIBLE WITH FAILBACK

If customers need FAILBACK capability back to Db2 in case SQL has an issue in accelerator, they currently use ENABLE WITH FAILBACK option. However, the routing criteria of ENABLE option includes cost factors calculated by optimizer. Customers want...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release