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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.

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Ability to version contro...

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over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Data source support for SAP BW4/HANA

SAP announced new BW4HANA platform at autumn 2016, which is a performance optimized and much simpler approach than old BW on HANA solution, which IBM does support. BW4HANA should be added as supported data source to allow high-performance access t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Add option to dbschema command to see views

Currently, you have to do a system table query to see existing views. Please add an option (possibly -v) to dbschema to display views.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage

Using Datastage 11.5.0.1 "File Connector Stage", We ask to implement the mapping from an input field defined as Decimal (17,2) to a target avro field defined as "type":["bytes","null"],"logicalType":"decimal","precision":"17","scale":"2" into the ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

information server sap pack - need encryption with idoc stage

In the Information Server pack for sap, the abap extract stage has an SNC capability-to encrypt data. Need the same ability with the idoc extract and idoc load stages.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Unable to turn off Extended Data Items

Extended data items are on by default and there's no way to turn them off
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IDAA LOADER - Terminate a...

Today, when we have a problem with a Load execution, we can use the BMC ISPF application to terminate the utility or use the DB2 TERM UTILITY command.When using Loader, there is no way to terminate a utility unless using the HLOMAINT Job .So, we n...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Unwanted consolidation/aggregation of XML data

I am using XML Output Stage in DataStage 11.3, to generate an XML chunk. Assume my input has rows like these (simplified):InvoiceNo SupplierVAT SupplierCountry SupplierName123 VAT1 NL Annette456 VAT1 NL Annette789 VAT1 NL AnnetteH147 VAT1 NL Annet...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Add Browse Functionality for JavaScript Path for Page / CustomControl Modules

Currently there is a simple text box for indicating the path to the JavaScript files to be used for CustomControl and Page Modules. It would be great to have a browse interface similar to the one used when locating image files. This helps assure d...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Set Default Option for Select and Search Prompt

Would like a property for Select and Search prompts that allows setting / modifying the default option.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration