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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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JSON_TABLE enhancement

JSON_TABLE UDF support in DB2 z/OS - while providing some support for parsing JSON documents does not have a robust functionality like JSON_TABLE in I series. Providing a more robust full functionality support - similar to XMLTABLE will allow easy...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Option to stop REST API calls from redirect

Currently if a REST response contain 'location' element, the redirect is transparent and there is no way to intercept the redirect. We need the option to not follow the redirect sometimes only to get the and process the location before the redirect.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Splitting Software Update package upload and pre-check steps

When doing Software Upgrade, ie. when pressing the "transfer" button in Datastudio, idaa server runs a list of 5 steps. The first step is the transfer of upgrade package of 20+GB. This could take long if the package does not locate on USS (some cu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to specify cores or exclusive host for Benchmark job

Currently all benchmark jobs submitted via RTM use 1 core. Also, one cannot specify node to be exclusively used via bsub -x. This allows other jobs to land on same node and thus tainting benchmark numbers
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

PCI Data Compliance

one of the things that is coming out of recent PCI reviews, is that the expectation that we can’t just rely on disk encryption to satisfy the requirements, but individual data/files need to be encrypted independently. This would obviously apply to...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration

Exploit RMF online VSAM dataset

We would like the IDAA Loader to be able to exploit RMF online VSAM datasets like with other SMF records i.e. SMF type 70. This way we could easily analyze LPAR performance from the last hours in shorter intervals than from SMF records. A similar ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Addition of a function that can output both pre-establishment and posterior probabilities

My customer wants to add a function that can output the establishment (pre - establishment) of the original data on the node of Modeler such as Bayesian network.
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Implement compression of REST request and reply data

We're using the REST interface. But sometimes we get a lot of data back. E.g. when we retreive a contract with a high inquiry level. Sending this data can be speed up by using gzip (or an other format) as a lot of REST API's already do.
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Use extension and subsitutionGroups in XSD

The MDM data model has you extend entities and the implementation of extensions is done via extending the Java classes. For instance if you extend the Person entity then your generated extension class extends "TCRMPersonBObj", however the Java ext...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration