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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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Extend codetables with an extra column providing an alphanumeric functional code

For us it's vital to have functional alphanumeric codes for codetables (language independent, like the id). Currently codetables have an id, name and language code (besides the description, expiry date and last update date) to describe code relate...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication

Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication (IIDR for IMS) in case of failing to continue replication, especially due to inconsistency between source and target DBs. (just like "FULLREFRESH" of II...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Targeted Refresh for z/OS Connect server

Currently, when implementing web services, the final step is to refresh z/OS Connect. The refresh will make available all web services that have been added to DVM regardless of whether the supporting area want them to be available. For example, ar...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect Refresh during import

Currently, when new web services are added, z/OS Connect must be refreshed to recognize the existence of a new operation or group of operations. The refresh must be done by issuing a REST call to /dvs?Refresh. Ideally, there should be a way to inc...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

ALTER ROW functionality for TimeSeries

Being able to alter TimeSeries rows is a critical feature for us. We are using a NoSQL option for this reason.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

LOAD card with RESUME and REPLACE on same table

Today there's no error message/info message that if you run a load with REPLACE and RESUME on the same table in the same job then you'll run into problem with missing Index-entries for the table
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Set DBSPACEDOWN for individual dbspaces

ONDBSPACEDOWN setting in onconfig affects Informix' reaction to any dbspace. However, users may have different needs for separate dbspaces. Some may be critical, others may not.Would be helpful to have the ability to override the instance setting ...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Knox support in File Connector

Have the knox support in the file connector stage reading delimited file or orc file.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Don't logout user when user has no permission accessing Information Asset Display

Don't logout user when user has no permission accessing Information Asset Display. Currently it intentionally takes user back to ICP4D login page. This behavior is not consistent with other page, and it is confusing to user. It should take user ba...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Kafka Refresh with Commit Stream Parameter should check Commit Stream Topic Existence at Beginning

Problem Description: Prerequisite: Kafka Instance Parameter kafka_bookmark_storage_type = COMMITSTREAMTOPIC Kafka topic auto creation is off/deactivated New Subscription with new mappings is created Target Topics are created Issue: Commit Stream T...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration