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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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


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Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

Make Workload Index Advisor available to DB2 for z/OS Developer Extenstion users

Index Advisor provides index recommendations focusing on single SQL queries To avoid index redundancies developers need to be able to invoke Workload Index Advisor in order to obtain consolidated index recommendations based upon table or applicati...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Submitted

Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
4 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted

In a rule, the related artifacts (terms) when they are multiple rules add the ability to sort

In a rule, the related artifacts (terms) when they are multiple they are listed by order they were assigned. We would like to have the ability to sort the column
18 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Ability to handle xml and xsd files in IKC

Hello Desjardins would like to see whether there can be any way to parse xml, xsd files in IKC. He also showed me the capability that parses xml in IGC. IKC cannot parse semi-structured data currently, but Datastage has xml parser which can be use...
18 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Accessibility in all supported web browsers and multiple screen readers

508 compliance requires application to be accessible when using a variety of major web browsers (i.e., Chrome, MS Edge) and screen readers. Cognos Analytics currently states that accessibility features are only supported with Firefox and JAWS scre...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

CDC replicate to Azure Datalake on parquet format

We need to move online data from our IBM i to Azure Datalake, we have DataStage but it's not online.
10 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

CDC can not support ARM arquitecture from AWS EC2

IIDR CDC can't be executed on AWS EC2 instances if it's selected an instance with an AWS Graviton processors. This situation limit the family instances elegibles to be selected.
10 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add Support for Hash and Hash iterator Objects in SAS Code Scanner

CWB leverages Hash and Hash Iterator Objects in our SAS code. Manta currently fails to parse these which has resulted in gaps in lineage, preventing end to end lineage . The details of the needed HASH support can be found here: https://documentati...
19 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted