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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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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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Return sql warning when zero/spaces are returned for invalid values in host files.

DVM allows us to turn on parameters like SQLENGIVZERO and SQLENGDFSHRC to handle situations where the underlying record contains invalid values or is shorter than the table structure. In cases where DVM converts values under the covers, a warning ...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0

Use hexadecimal attributes as reference attribute in counters

Currently, Safer Payments only allows the usage of Numeric and Text attributes as reference attributes in counters. This limits the usage of counters with computation "Most occurrence value" to those two types.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Add table name to -640 error.

Add tablename to -640 error.
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to create VCD files compatible with Windows or Unix, Linux paths.

Please provide option in Transformer that specifies the VDC file to be created with specific Windows or Unix\Linux paths depending on the intended target platform for the Powercube, or both in a mixed platform environment.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Masking

Column mask : A column mask specifies the value to be returned for a specified column based on the role. Example: Paul from the payroll department can see the social security number of the employee whose employee number is 123456. Mary who is a ma...
over 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Chat - private communication

In an early release of PAW it was possible to use the chat function to communicate to a specific user by using @-sign. This was removed. Customers are asking for this functionality and it would be great if this functionality returns.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Localizing the file used in the ODBC/DB2 Connectors for the "read select statement from file"

This in regard to PMR/CASE #: TS000099558 ISSUE:DataStage ODBC/DB2 connector with ‘Read select statement from file': file note accessible from Hadoop hi-We have a DataStage job with odbc connector and the select statement is set to 'Read select ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

FR583: Enhance IFCID 316 to capture stats of UDFs as well

When the following dynamic SQL query is issued, processing the query involves processing a UDF. This works fine. However, when looking at SQL dynamic statements stats in a DB2 monitor, which retrieves IFCID 316 data from DB2, the data provided is ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Integrate with the Enterprise LDAP or Domain authentication

Integrate with the Enterprise LDAP or Domain authentication Currently tool manages internal security model not aligned with the enterprise LDAP/ADS integration for the Target, CDA, MC
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel compatibility issue

I am running a solution on Cognos 10.2 using the Excel plugin COGNOS CAFE FP4 10.2.2 32 BIT. This plugin is not compatible with Office 365 which is being rolled out now in the company.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration