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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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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

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...
21 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.
22 days ago in DataStage 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

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

Allow mixed case for userids for Openpages/CPD

Cause & Issue: Currently, our user IDs in OpenPages are stored in uppercase During our migrating of OpenPages to CP4D, we found that CP4D stores its user IDs in lowercase This has led to the user sync job between CPD4 and OpenPages creating a ...
4 months ago in watsonx.governance 3 Under review

Allow software customisation for spark notebook environment

Makes customisation on existing default spark notebook environments to include additional libraries easier, like how it is currently possible for current Python runtimes. Currently, the only way we can think of is to run pip install in the noteboo...
2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Automation of code (UNIX scripts) deployment to storage volumes for CPD DataStage service

This is for automation of code especially unix scripts used for ETL batch processing by DataStage service on CPD platform. DataStage service needs storage volumes for processing files which are accessible by both conductor & compute PODs on CP...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

performance improvement for specific replication instance

Need improve deleting synchronization performance for big table with wide unique key column: We see latency keep increasing to 2 hours when batch deleting happen on big table which has ~1 billion rows and unique key includes 11 columns. More detai...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Loss Entry Application enable association capabilities to other parent GRC objects

When entering a loss via the Loss Entry Application the user is currently unable to associate the loss to any other GRC objects outside of the business entity. The request is to enable the user the ability to see other parent GRC objects and assoc...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review