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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.

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


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Support CLOB data type 4 GB

DB2 support only 2 GB for CLOB, where as Oracle support 4GB. This creates issue from migrating from Oracle to DB2
12 months ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Under review

Repository Oracle 23

Hello, When do you plan to support Oracle 23for datastage repository? Thanks regards
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Writeback to object storage and databases through data virtualization layer

Real-Life Scenario In our Data Lake, we want to expose all of our data sources (structured and unstructured) to our customers in an unified data virtualization layer. In one use case, we want to train an AI algorithm on the data and flag those fil...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Excel data source out-of-the-box connector

We have many customers who wants Excel as data source and need out-of-the-box connector for Watson Query. Remote connection is a very tedious process and even creating it for demo purpose and showcasing it to customer is painful and it results in ...
almost 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

SMS Integration

SMS integration is critical requirement raised by many customers recently. The requirement becomes more critical when it comes to implementation of Audit & BCM module. You are requested to share input or experience where IBM team has delivered...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

Allow users to specify the alert message that should be sent to receivers

Databand currently uses a default message template for our alert receivers. The template includes the fields that are considered to be the most relevant/important in evaluating an alert at a high level. Since many customers have escalation policie...
about 1 year ago in Databand / Feature 0 Under review

remove the dependency on the self-signed certificates in FTM V4

Self signed certificates are not allowed per bank standard security restictions.
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

Hashcorp Vault secrets management support

Bank of America uses Hashicorp Vault for secrets management in a containerized environment. Databand must be able to support Hashicorp Vault.
about 1 year ago in Databand / Integration 0 Under review

SCC and SOD Compliance

The Bank of America Epic for this requirement is summarized here: https://bigblue.aha.io/features/CP4DCFI-242 BofA compliance details are found here: https://tinyurl.com/BofA-SCC-SOD
about 1 year ago in Databand / Not functional 0 Under review

All Db2 Family datasources enable DB2 Trusted context for SSO

To make the Data Fabric more user friendly, enable the Db2 Family datasources to be able to use Trusted Context connections. When using SSO, the person will not need a a password to access the datasources, as the platform will flow the user name t...
about 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review