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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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Import PoweDesigner VIEWS in .pdm files

For Teradata Physical Data Models in PowerDesigner, the VIEWS are very important. When importing these Physical Data Models into IBM Knowledge Catalog, the VIEWS are not imported. All the data modeling tools that we know (PowerDesigner, ER Studio,...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Support Text Formatting in Questionnaire Templates

We have a requirement to make some part of text in Questionnaire Template Introduction as bold and to change color of the text. But I couldn't do it, since rich text format is not supported.
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Elasticsearch origin and destination should support proxy

Currently, when SDC is connected to SCH via proxy (Java options http.proxyPort/Host), Elasticsearch origin and destination still try to connect to the Elastic directly, ignoring proxy settings. https://streamsets.atlassian.net/browse/INT-3217 This...
19 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Engine Creation - permissions (Anywhere AAS)

Please do not restrict environment creation on Datastage Anywhere AAS projects to the person who created the engine. If that person is unavailable, we cannot create environments.
20 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Detect connection status to data source

On several occasions the following scenario has occurred:Lost connection at the origin, however, the subscription remains in the "Mirroring continuous" state, but it is not actually replicating anything, since when validating at the database level...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Convert LRSN to TIMESTAMP

We use CDC replication. When the replication stops for any reason there is a bookmark in the form of an LRSN. We need a way to convert that LRSN to a TIMESTAMP. We need this conversion to see if the LRSN is too old, so we do not have Arhive Logs t...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

trim_char_to_varchar feature for FlexRep

Hi we have requirement to replicate data from db2 to cockroach db. db2 we have char data type columns and respective columns in cockrachdb are varchar. So we would need to have trim_char_to_varchar system parameter at the datastore level in FlexRe...
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Under review

Synchronized Fields option when using shared field group in different objects

When you use a field group in multiple objects it would be great to have the option at the field level to check synchronized field. This would allow the data in the field of one object to be synchronized the the same field in a different object wh...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review