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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Snowflake Bulk not able to read from read-only database due to the temporary file format.

When Snowflake Bulk stage tries to read from a read-only database, it fails with the message: "Could not create a temporary file format (SNOWFLAKE_47)" due to the lack of permissions to create the file format object in the source database. This is...
25 days ago in StreamSets 1 Submitted

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Enable/Disable Triggers at a Session or SQL level

I need update a significant number of rows on a very large table that has triggers. If I run disable triggers that is affect all sessions and means I need to take the table offline, which really means I need to take the system down SQL similar to ...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Cube view should show data in PAW if there is no dimension in Row or Column

In a crosstab structure of cube view in PAW if we don’t put at least one dimension in both Rows and Columns the view does not show the data. This does not happen in TM1 Web. This is a very basic functionality of TM1 to play around with dimensions ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

V15 sqlca structure to report BIGSERIAL & SERIAL8 value assigned by INSERT

In versions of the engine prior to v15.0 & CSDK library versions prior to v15.0, the SQLCA structure fields were int4 and could not hold the values returned from inserting to a BIGSERIAL or SERIAL8 column requiring a separate call to the DBINF...
28 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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.
15 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.
15 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Copy/Paste Ignore Rule Calculated Cells

The ability to copy paste multiple cells of data across a section of cells that contains some rule derived cells. This would reduce the time required to enter data by reducing the amount of times we have to copy paste to avoid the rule derived cells.
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted