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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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Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack Delta Extract Stage.This is necessary to support the delta-extraction mode of CDS Views for extraction of data from SAP System for tables that does not support delta extraction via ODP - SAP or...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Redshift Copy from S3 Fails with 'AVRO string is broken' Error in 'Load' Write Mode"

When using the Redshift connector with 'Load' write mode, the copy operation from S3 to Redshift fails with an 'AVRO string is broken' error when there are no records. We need the process to complete successfully without writing any data.
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Workflow Action that loops over a Multi Select Field

For some processes, end users may opt to select fields in a multi-valued picklist. In those events - such as a RegChange, it would be great if we could loop over those results and create objects and do other actions like in a Loop. So in my Regcha...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Customer wants to set a Schedule report frequency multiple times a day. there is no option to schedule hourly refresh in the on demand offering.. Currently we only have options for Daily, Weekly and Monthly as per documentation

Response from Support - From: JEREMY BEATHAM < jbeatham@au1.ibm.com >As we’ve covered previously, the capability of the product is more limited in the offereing chosen to develop this solution. As previously highlighted for other functionali...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Under review

Allow default Parent Business Entity value be set in registry

In our current solution end users are required to do an extra step of selecting a Parent Business Entity when creating a new (GRC) entry. I understand why the Business entity exists and appreciate the usefullness of this capability. In our case th...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Provide export functionality to select other user info to be displayed in export, for example, to show email address or first name and last name instead UserID?

Business users will be able to identify quickly an easily who are the owner, assignee or user that has an specific role just into the record export. In this moment are able to see the user name (UserID) only, so a user should investigate the first...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Sort engines by alphabetical order in the datastage console

We created an engine spdsengqlf05 before the engine spdsengqlf04 and they seem to appear in creation order (or xmeta database order) in the console indode the drop down engine list at top right of the screen.
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

New Function UNHEX

New Function UNHEX (name subject to change/negotiation) We have a system where all CHAR columns are defined FOR BIT DATA. It seemed genius at the time to save a few bytes of data, not realizing the negative impact in future maintainability and in ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

IKC workflow mail notifications fine-tuning

If user is receiving lots of notifications from workflows, it would be good to have a bit more convenient e-mail content. Now when the e-mail notifications are created, the subject line basically says "Notification: Your task is completed" or some...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review