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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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Using 64-bit common storage with IFI READS 306 (IFCID 0306)

When reading log records using IFI READS 306 we now have the capability of specifying a 64-bit pointer to common storage. The dsnwlir function call requires five parameters. The second parameter is an IFCA pointer and we must set the IFCAFLGS valu...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Implement compression of REST request and reply data

We're using the REST interface. But sometimes we get a lot of data back. E.g. when we retreive a contract with a high inquiry level. Sending this data can be speed up by using gzip (or an other format) as a lot of REST API's already do.
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Use extension and subsitutionGroups in XSD

The MDM data model has you extend entities and the implementation of extensions is done via extending the Java classes. For instance if you extend the Person entity then your generated extension class extends "TCRMPersonBObj", however the Java ext...
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Classic CDC changes for IMS RFE 102607

Request required changes to classic change data capture for IMS to reflect changes to IMS RFE 102607.
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Allow Semicolon as COLDEL using LOAD

Hello! We have to LOAD a very large delimited file into a DB2 for zOS Table! The file comes from another organization and is deliverd to many companies! It uses ';' X'5E' as column delimiter and it is not possible to edit the file, because it is &...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Make DVM JDBC driver publicly available via Maven-like repository

Currently, in order to make the latest JDBC driver available to our developers, we download the jar file from Fix Central, and then make a new entry in our company repository. Ideally, we would like our company repository to point to an IBM/Rocket...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Better preserve formatting information in Endpoint Language Translator

We are building a chatbot with Watson Assistant and would like to integrate the translation service. Technically it works, but we loose many formatting informations while translating (DE to EN or DE to FR). We tried the endpoint document translati...
almost 5 years ago in Language Translator (Archived Jan 24 2024) 0 Not under consideration

Need cognos analytics support for Siteminder CA siteminder 12.8 version

Hi, as per supported document of Cognos analytics 11.0.x, it says that it supports CA SiteMinder "12.5 and future fix packs". CA siteminder 12.5 is an old version and they would stop supporting this old version. Our company is planning to upgrade ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Issue rating sort order

While displaying the Issues list, ascending and descending orders on column [Affiliate Rating] or [Corporate Rating] uses the alphabetical order of ratings, rather than their importance. Proper order for ascending order shall be: Not applicable &g...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

brequeue on zombie jobs please

a machine crashed on an on-premise cluster leaving many jobs in a UNKWN state. as described here [https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027518] i tried bkill -r twice then brequeue -e, but got the error message "Job has already fini...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration