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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Evaluate using io_uring for I/O in Informix Linux Platform

Create some performance tests and evaluate an architecture change in Informix to migrate AIO or Kernel AIO to using kernel io_uring Maybe it's not possible to use io_uring in Informix and nowadays, performance increase from using IO_DIRECT KAIO to...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

JSON and JSONB maximum size on NPS

Message systems like Kafka are often used as an enterprise nervous system for data. A datawarehouse like Netezza Performance Server needs to be able to consume this data for analysis and reporting. Most organizations prefer the loading of their da...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

ODBC Connection for Multi TM1 Server IBM PA Cloud instance, lock a specific Database to a specific DSN

In the Cloud: IBM PA can use Json Key and Simba ODBC for connecting to the on prem data. This works ok if you do not mind the Data tier in IBM PA showing all DSN connections to all Datasets and projects in on prem data. When you have a scenario wh...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Make Widget Edges (black thick border box) an Optional Feature

Summary In a book, when I click to select and focus a widget (object), it shows a thick black border with padding around the widget, with a button to maximise/resize the widget (known as resizeEdge), which overlaps over other widgets. Description ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Consolidated Database Availability (weekly/monthly) Report.

Data Management Console currently doesn't have a capability to generate a weekly/monthly "Database Availability" report of all the Databases that are being monitored. This enhancement needs to be added so that DMC can generate a report which shoul...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

PySpark Kernel unable to read/extract when connected to external database using Kerberos Keytab

IBM JRE supplied as part of Sym 7.3.1 + Conductor 2.5 is incompatible with current use-case Use-case: We have a client that uses Spark/Notebooks (PySpark kernel) to connect an external database via ODBC using kerberos. Whenever they try to connect...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 3 Delivered

Allow ability to remove "Capture point for mirroring"

In our environment we have separate subscriptions for "Refresh" vs "Continuous Mirroring". It can be months between refreshes. We do not want to delete the refresh subscriptions as that increases possibility of losing configurations. We also have ...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Password encryption on QMF Server and Data Virtualization Manager and the JDBC driver.

Royal Bank of Canada and likely other customers have the following need. With DVM and the QMF Server and the JDBC Gateway the credential management system of Globals and the AVZDRATH job will be a security\auditing issue. 1) If the users are mappe...
about 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt password in the DVM JDBC Gateway credential management system

Royal Bank of Canada and likely other customers have the following need. With DVM and the QMF Server and the JDBC Gateway the credential management system of Globals and the AVZDRATH job will be a security\auditing issue. 1) If the users are mappe...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration