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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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External Table handle CRLF in data

The EXTERNAL TABLE capability of DB2 Warehouse cannot handle CSV files that contain CRLF characters in the data when the record delimiter is also CRLF. This is a very common, RFC4180 compliant format (see 2.6) that is produced when saving as CSV f...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Enable Percentage as a Data Type

Enable Percentage as a Data Type. This ensures that the presentation layer can clearly indicate a Percentage type number. As this is lacking Solution Design need to use a string type and perform multiple validation to achieve this purpose.
over 3 years ago in Product Master 6 Not under consideration

Provide an FTM MER configuration to approve or deny a received message that fails RMA . Request to add a requirement to create such an extension to queues of purpose CONFIRM (to allow approve/deny RMA).

To enable received messages that fail RMA to be processed in a MER queue defined as confim, ValidateRM and the actions approve/deny RMA.
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Text alerts notification instead of only email alerts

it would be nice if we could get text alerts sent to specific phone numbers instead of only getting email alerts
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2Warehouse on Cloud temporary tablespaces

・Db2Warehouse on Cloud temporary tablespaces ・ Function improvement request target: Db2Warehouse on Cloud ・ Request A specific SQL process causes the entire DB to stop. I want you to improve this. ・ Details If SQL that uses a lot of temporar...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Improve DB2 messages(etc DSNB601I)

A message indicating a situation in which SQL can not be executed is an information message.If this is an error message, the system administrator can easily find the error.For example, a DSNB601I message indicating that the buffer pool is full.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance slowly changing dimension stage to full bi temporal join

Enhance the functionality of the stage "Slowly changing dimension" to a bi temporal functionality like the time travel feature from DB2. A typical use case in every DWH or data lake project is to store all versions of the data which you get from y...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Create Accounting Data Lite record type

The standard DB2 Accounting record has become increasingly bloated over the years. All of the information contained in each record is useful, but much of it is not necessary for basic Accounting purposes. Because the record is so big, and so expen...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Selective Suppression of DB2 maintained System History

There are times when it is not desirable to create a new DB2 maintained system history row if the values in the columns of the base table have actually not changed. DB2 already suppresses the actual update of a non-temproal table if none of the co...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

HL7 parser/creator/connector

no solution yet
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Future consideration