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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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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 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

JDBC driver shouldn't require SSLCONNECTION to be set when SQLHOSTS is used

Currently, the Informix JDBC driver requires SSLCONNECTION=true for connection strings that involve a TLS database listener. But when SQLH_TYPE and SQLH_FILE are set, the sqlhosts file already contains this information in the protocol field; it th...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Refresh : subset row

Hi, The idea is to have No limit for SQL length when we need to refresh a subset of rows . The code limitation for SQL length IS 1000 characters. Sometimes SQL code is shorter than this limit, no issue. For other usages we can have over 1000000 ch...
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Import and Export the masks, ignores, excludes used in a change

We should be able to create the change in one environment and then export those options from the source and import them into the target to do the same change there.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

db2 "export to employee.del of del modified by coldel\t select * from test1"

DB2 Export cannot export data with a two-digit delimiter (\t). If I want to export data separated by \t, DB2 will not be able to support it
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration

[SAP Pack] ABAP Extract Stage's non-default ftp port setup support request

hello I want to use ftp, the data transfer method of ABAP Extract Stage. There is no ability to specify ftp port. The use of the ftp default port 21/tcp shows up as a vulnerability in security audits, so a different port must be used. The ibm case...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Add timestamp to all -DISPLAY command outputs

More and more companies are using multiple DISPLAY commands to track for problems or usage statistics etc. The problem is that the TIMESTAMP when the command was issued is not in the output (apart from DISPLAY BLOCKERS) It would be really good to ...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Workflow Administration - Terminate Workflow Instances

PLEASE create separate security permissions around Workflow Instances. Right now, it's baked into the "Workflow" security permission. This isn't helpful - we have to rely on our IT team to terminate workflows when we (the business leads) should be...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Dashboard: Conditional Coloring based on a Data value such as products or items

To keep all the parameters and criteria in a database (Dynamic) not static like all other BI products Can't believe all these conditional formatting are still static
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration