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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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Allow complete acces path in optimization hint (like db2 for ZOS)

We have the same cobol application that on both z/os and luw.We are using static sql in packages. We run 12 schemas using the same sets of tables in each for manual application parallelism.Occasionally a package for a given schema will flip access...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Explanation of property files values

Inside the properties asset of MDM 11.4.0.3 are a couple of properties files (like TCRM.properties and DWLCommon.properties). There's no extensively documentation about the values of the key's inside the property files.Knowing the options we can u...
about 8 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Changes to support automated General Diagnostic Health Checks

System: Applies to the complete InfoSphere Product FamilyActor: System Administrator We need to be able to automate health checks, but the current ISALite has two limitations that would need to be fixed:1) You cannot encrypt passwords as input whe...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow rich searches with only category criteria

Product: MDMCE 11.5.0 - standard UI for rich search The current user interface in v11.5 does not allow to execute searches that don't specify attribute conditions, e.g. it displays a popup window with message "You must enter at least one valid sea...
about 8 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to support Informix C-ISAM 7.25 on AIX7.2

1)Customer application have used Informix C-ISAM for a log time.2)The application renewal project already started.3)Customer required using Informix C-ISAM 7.25 on AIX7.2.4)AIX7.2 was standard OS in this customer about UNIX enviroment.
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5 DataStage support Date and Time data type for Parquet

We have been using IIS 11.5 with FP2 for couple years now for Hadoop data ingestion. New version of Parquet has provide date, time date type. Other tools and language has adopted this very quickly. Now we have received a lot of request to load Dat...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Requesting that IBM certify Datastage 11.5 on Power9 and AIX 7.1 TL4

All, We specifically purchased this hardware to host DataStage after reviewing the available documentation on the IBM website(See links below). We are unable to upgrade to 11.7 because we rely heavily on CDC in our processing as well as other comp...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Merge option in Snowflake connector as a load option to overcome the performance issue with insert and update.

We have already discussed the issue with IBM SF developer (Saravanan). Please provide an ETA asap. this is critical showstopper to use SF connector in Datastage.
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

PMR-TS001777097 (Enhancement to Response file generation in the existing SFDC plugin)

Enhancement to Response file generation in the existing SFDC plugin .The change we are looking1) When we load the data in to SFDC the stage should generate 2 types of files 1) request file and 2) response file. Currently only request file is getti...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

loading data with Sales Force Connector for parent child relationships

Hello,We want to use the standard relationship fonction existing in Salesforce between the Parent-Child object while loading the data through Datastage.In the child object, we can specify the External ID of the parent objet and Salesforce automati...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists