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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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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Map LOB-columns in DB2 to VARCHAR(32kb) columns in IDAA

At this moment it is not possible to use LOB-columns in the IDAA. This limits our use of the IDAA in several areas where data is registered in LOB-columns. We understand that a full implementation of LOB-columns in IDAA will not happen in (near) f...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cluster restart

While using the script egoshutdown.sh to shut down the cluster a lot of grid processes (pem and ssm) survive and turn into zombie processes.Killing these zombies after running the script egoshutdown.sh leads to "Blocked Hosts" after starting the c...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

In PAW create datasource file with full file path

When creating a process in PAW ; give the ability to create the date source file with the full file path, not only the relative path. Allow you to differentiate files according to their use and the instance in which they are used.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Updatetimestamp column to DVM virtual map table SQLENG.TABLES

Add updatetimestamp column to SQLENG.TABLES in DVM.
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Search should be additional for content (all terms "anded")

when searching for content in the Cognos Analytics portal in 11.1.6 the behavior appears to be an "or" search. In other words if I search for A simple report name the search is executed on content as A [or] simple [or] report [or] name. This searc...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos reports need date/time

Cognos reports need date/time to be appended while saving to the file system.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Delete a virtual table by JCL

With DVM studio, it's possible of delete the virtuals tables but the time of delete is long. Sometimes I need to drop multiple virtual tables and this operation it’s not possible with studio (I wait one hour). Can you create an option to delete th...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced to support Oracle ACFS in CDC v11.4

Enhanced to support Oracle ACFS in CDC v11.4
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced TM1 Source Node Performance

The current integration with TM1 source node pulls back an entire view before executing subsequent nodes which means any view that you need to query must either be limited to only the data you need or it pulls back additional data that is not need...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use Surrogate Key Generator in DataStage for Netezza DBMS

We are trying to use the balanced optimizer feature in DataStage 9.1 to rewrite the ETL logic in SQL that runs on the Netezza appliance instead of the DataStage server. We are looking for a way to generate the surrogate keys that works in DataStag...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists