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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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Add Web Services support directly in 4GL language

Provide ability directly in 4GL for a Web Services Interface, both as a client of external services, AND as a provider of services. Support SOAP and REST protocols, as well as SFTP/FTP
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Enhance 4GL Language to offer a GUI Interface, for both WIndows, MAC, Linux X and Browset

Enhance the Forms-based User Interface to support a Graphical interface consistent with current technologies offered by Microsoft Windows, MAC OS, Linux X, and Web Browsers.
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

db2u-operator should be available in OperatorHub.io

Our OpenShift environments require a certified source for OpenShift-operators: OperatorHub.ioCurrently db2u is not available there, what prevents us from deploying the operator in our environment. By mirroring a db2u-repository from OperatorHub.io...
3 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Jobs API - have synchronous call to launch Datastage jobs

One of our customer (CNP in France) is evaluating the CP4D-DataStage. They have DataStage 11.5 and actually migrating to 11.7. They have a framework (BASIC code that orchestrates the DataStage jobs) that is the centerpiece of their DataStage proje...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Add Option to Create a new job step to Action Menu of Report

Currently, we add new reports to an existing job by navigating to the job and editing it by adding a new job step. Our idea is to add an option to the Action Menu of the report which would allow us to add it it to an existing job. There is current...

Provide backup and restore procedures on Manta installed on-prem

Manta Documentation should have: 1. Procedures to backup all Manta data and config without requiring Manta to be shut down. This ensures that periodic backups of Manta can be taken without adversely affecting its availability. 2. Procedures to res...
24 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Korn-Graubard CIs

The Korn-Graubard method to create confidence intervals is the recommended method for the NHANES survey. SPSS Complex Surveys does not offer that method. It would be helpful for that too be added as an option.
24 days ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition for Lineage scanner
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

When restoring content with "CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION=True", offer an option to merge the configration parameters from the old to new dispatcher.

It is not always possible to deploy content to servers with identically-named hosts. Currently, all of the configurations (including tuning settings and advanced parameters at the dispatcher and service levels) are deployed into the "old" dispatch...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted