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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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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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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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MT604 and MT605 field 23 (DELIVERY/ TRANSFER)

For field 23, Either create a drop-down that accepts only TRANSFER and DELIVERY or it allows only TRANSFER and DELIVERY keywords. Current FTM allows users to enter anything within 16 character, when wrong code is entered, no error prompt to stop t...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Oracle account can be dynamic for creating CDC instance and CDC datastore

Problem statement/pain points: Now it needs a persistent static password for the oracle account when create CDC instance and CDC datestore and the password can change, otherwise the CDC instance and CDC datastore will not work if the password cha...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Not under consideration

Database activation should carry separate security authority

ACTIVATE DATABASE should be a separate GRANTed authority.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Display Services Tier operating system resources in Ops Console

In an environment where ISD jobs are exposed and IGC is also used it would be useful to be able to view the resources for the services tier.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Run pytest in Conductor

We would like to use pytest framework to run test cases that contains python notebooks and essentially some of the notebooks use spark and h2o. We would like to understand if you are aware how to make this work using conductor.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration

The Database export assistant should accecpt the length for all oracle data formats which allow a length.

We have a lot of Oracle-Tables with columns in raw format. It should be possible to write back such informations with the database export assistent. But it isn't, because he doesn't accept a lengt for the raw format, which is required from oracle....
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Catalog command with comment string length 30 chars is too short

Catalog command with comment string limit of 30 chars is too short. The examples in the knowledge center document use longer strings.We use the string to contain our FQDN server names and often the limit enforces us to short names.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Classic CDC to Support column-level CodePage selection

I work at a financial institution where we process mainframe information in EBCDIC CodePage 037, 838, 930 and 937.Currently we plan to work around a CodePage limitation by generating four separate subscriptions; one for each EBCDIC CodePage we wan...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IIDR Mapping Tables to Teradata target when columns are greater than 30 characters

The error message 'Message3037' Exception Text 'null'. is received when attempting to add a table to a subscription when the target table has a column name with the length greater than 30 characters.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Disable Apple push notifications via configuration file

In the previous versions of cognos, we were able to disable apple push notifications via xml file but it is being ignored in recent versions. you can disable now using UI.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration