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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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Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 1 Future consideration

extended ESQL/C login structure for solving password length problem

Status: In an application using ESQL/C authentication with instance users, a user can change his password by using sql with a passwort length greater than the 18 character limit imposed by the struct InetLogin (see case TS003855467). After the cha...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Add function to do a mass LIKE command

Instead of modeling a single table space or table, for example, we want to use an entire hierarchy of objects to start building a new sets of objects. For example, we do MASSLIKE (example command name only) on a table space and it would pull into ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Open DataStage Flows directly from Watson Pipeline Orchestration Flow

Currently, DataStage developers cannot open a parallel job directly from a sequence job. In this case, providing a way to go directly to the DataStage flow from the orchestration pipeline that is invoking the job would reduce the number of hops/cl...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Customize message "Downloading this report in Excel format"

Thank you for contacting IBM Support The Downloading this report in Excel format message can not be changed This is set in part of the code of the program If this change is important to you then you can add this enhancement to our Ideas portal. ht...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Need an API to fetch Group Administrator settings

API for groups and (users) only returns what security admin permissions that group has to administer other groups . Currently there is no API for users/groups to get the list of everyone who has access to administer them and the properties (Manage...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

Allow the application of users local time on timestamps in data export

Safer payments generated timestamps are stored in UTC and are converted using the users preferences (my account) when displayed in the UI (queries or case management). When export dating the raw data is used and timestamps are exported in UTC. Thi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Add a new security role to read the logs

Add a new security privileges to allow and restrict the log reads and history file.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

allow the ability to generate REPLACE instead of RESUME YES

Sometimes you want to unload/load with REPLACE instead of RESUME YES. Need the unload utility able to generate LOAD REPLACE.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

MFA Administration

We need the ability to manage and define MFA policies for cloud-based applications. MFA was recently enabled on all cloud-based applications. We have a need to require end users to be challenged via MFA on a regular basis (daily). Currently, an MF...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted