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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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Allow COPY with Templates to pick TAPE or DASD based on RTS

We are creating intraday Image Copy jobs that may contain a mix of small and large tables. We use Templates and Include/Exclude to determine which objects should go to TAPE and which should go to DASD. The threshold for what determines large or sm...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Direct read of Archive logs from TSM server when using db2 rollforward on crossnode restore operations

Usually our Db2 backups to TSM. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have to access to the TSM server for Restore/rollforward. In the target environment the Db2 archive logs are extracted via db2adutl afte...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Functionality already exists

Parameter display WORKSTATION USER ID and WORKSTATION NAME

We use InfoSphere Data Replication for z/OS Remote Source v. 11.4.0.2 and we have detected that the following properties are not displayed in the details of the DDF SUMMARY in the MAINVIEW monitor: WORKSTATION USER ID WORKSTATION NAME These par...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

search within a custom subset in subset editor

Cannot search within a custom subset in subset editor. Search features do not seem to work even though the element that is being searched for exist
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

TI in Workspace needs ability to map columns of a data source to dimensions of a cube

TI in Workspace isn't complete as it doesn't have the same capabilities of TI in Architect, specifically the ability to map the columns of a data source to a target cube and dimensions. At the moment administrators are using Architect or scripting...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Oracle connector : support of SDO_GEOMETRY data types

we are not able to insert GEOMAP data to oracle DB. We opened case with IBM #TS003869041 and they informed us that SDO_GEOMETRY is not a supported Oracle data type target for DataStage and asked us to open RFE.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to use Surrogate Key Generator in DataStage for Netezza DBMS

We are trying to use the balanced optimizer feature in DataStage 9.1 to rewrite the ETL logic in SQL that runs on the Netezza appliance instead of the DataStage server. We are looking for a way to generate the surrogate keys that works in DataStag...
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Optim ZO/S Enhancement request

Please see attachment for the 2 enhancement requests for Optim ZO/S.
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 3 Functionality already exists

iOS Native Contacts Sync

It would be beneficial to have contacts that are added on iOS devices native contacts app, sync to MaaS360 contacts. Many users use the phone contacts to add new ones and are not used to going into MaaS360 to add contacts. There is no easy way to ...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 1 Functionality already exists

On webhook return: allow execution of multiple response options

When using a webhook, the return value can be handled with multiple responses, but only the first matching response is executed. It would be nice to have the option to execute also other matching response options. So there should be a parameter to...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Functionality already exists