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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

Alias for page/context elements in a drill through view.

There is no alias display for page/context members in a drill through view on PA Workspace Local release 27.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDC support for SQL Server 2017 AlwaysOn clusterless availability groups

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data between SQL Server databases. However, we would like to improve read scale for our applications using SQL Server AlwaysOn clusterless availability groups. However, CDC does not support databases ...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Connector to URL addressable data source

Connect to a data source which is URL addressable to catalog it.
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Twitter Connector

Connector which allows to access twitter data/APIs
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 3 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

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

Control of the API version on Bluemix Interface

Watson Conversations offers not only the API but also quite a complete interface that can be used by logging in Bluemix. In many projects, when business and experts train the system, they use the Bluemix interface. It is more or less intuitive and...
about 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration