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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Upgrade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) from 128-bit encryption to 256-bit as the default on IBM Information Server

Upgrade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) from 128-bit encryption to 256-bit as the default on IBM Information Server
over 4 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Information Server 11.7.1 - XMETA support on SQL Server 2017

In IIS 11.7.1 we have XMETA supported on SQL Server 2016, but customers already moved to 2017. We need to stay current with IIS in terms of XMETA repository support and install IIS 11.7.1 on SQL Server 2017.
about 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Challenges Integrating IdG Platform with InfoSphere: Metadata Structure Hurdles information server v11.7

The dependency that administration tasks have on the users dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin. It has not been possible to fully segregate them from our everyday administration users, and this dependency has led us to fail to meet information security s...
over 2 years ago in Information Server 0 Submitted

Adding the microservices tier to an existing IIS 11.7.1 installation

Add the option to install the microservices tier (a.k.a. Unified Governance stack) after the installation of IIS 11.7.1 is already finished. This is not currently possible as documented in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.7...
about 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Functionality already exists

Provide SAP Server Pack for SAP Application as a SAP Add-On

We will require SAP Server Components need to be provided as SAP Add-on instead of transport protocol files.
over 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

RFE for Datastage with DB2 BLU/MPP

Client use DB2 BLU for online inquiry and Data warehouse to improve performance of Parts Information System. Their warehouse includes huge BLU table (table size is 30TB before compress) that is MPP configured.Clinent uses Datastage to load the hug...
over 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

To have a feature to update multiple ETLs at once thru DataStage designer interface

The idea is to have an additional tool or feature to allow multiple updates of similar changes to ETLs at once. This has to be done through DataStage interface. As IBM support has confirmed, 'there is no supported way of doing it' currently. Curre...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Rule output for not applicable rows (not part of DRD scope) should not be treated as "met"

Currently N/A (filtered out) rows that are not in scope of a certain data rule (definition) display status as "met". We would like to be able to toggle whether to include or exclude N/A rows from rule results while creating the rule. So as an exam...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Informatica lineage parsing beyond limitation(5 layers) in WKC

Customer couldn't see the column name under the transformation in lineage. and created PMR TS006637652 Got the following feedback : The Open IGC bridge does not support feature level lineage. There is transformation level only lineage. This is rel...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

Extend ondwa to include a report of the tables included in a named data mart and the volume of data in each table in each IWA data mart.

In an environment with many data marts defined across multiple schema databases it becomes difficult to keep track of what tables are included in what marts and the volume of data in each. A report that could be produced from the IWA node using on...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration