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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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stripchar() function requires use of accent grave instead of quotes (I'm not making this up!)

When attempting to use the stripchar() function in a DERIVE node to remove spaces, dashes and parentheses from a phone number string field, I encountered an error: failed to apply operator or function to argument types stripchar(SYMBOL,SYMBOL). Th...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Log file rotation for Connection Manager on Windows

Using the Connection Manager LOGFILE token, it is not possible to rotate logs. Therefore they become large and unwieldy
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 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...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Avoid DSNB260I

many DSNB260I received on DB2, during many many hours, when CDC REFRESH is working. There are apar with parameters for mirroring but not for refresh. (exemple PM57708) - parameters here : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSTRGZ_10.2.1/...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Is a defect

Limit data items in data tray in Cognos Analytics

We have a need to restrict the amount of information that shows up in the data tray.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

XMLCHANGENAMESPACES function

This RFE proposes an XMLCHANGENAMESPACES function that can be used to create a copy of an XML element node with one or more namespaces being changed. Proposed syntax: XMLCHANGENAMESPACES(XML-Expression, old-namespace-uri--AS--new-namespace-uri)Whe...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

cleanup of Old LOAD_INDEX records from lsb.events

The investigation indicates that LOAD_INDEX record is written to lsb.events when there is change (addition/deletion) in load indices. The records are not automatically cleaned and have no impact to performance unless there are a quite a lot of the...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

DVM Studio parser needs 64-bit support

Mac users are limited to installing the DVM plugin on their workstations. MacOS 10.14 is the last version that supports the current 32-bit application. The plugin will not install on an OS beyond 10.14.
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDAA LOADER job with RC=8 due to IDAA load fail

Some of our daily DB2 load Jobs are "DUAL MODE" (DB2 + 4 IDAAs) but we are having issues due to RC=8 when just one IDAA receives error . When the load is sucessful for DB2 and 3 IDAAs but abend for just one IDAA we want to receive at least RC=4 be...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration