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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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CDC Replication from IMS to IDAA

Enable replication (Change Data Capture) from IMS to IDAA in the same manner as CDC for DB2
about 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Request ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics

Request the ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics for the flexlicusageloader data loader by setting a configuration parameter in flexlicusage.properties. This would make PA consistent with the LSF License Scheduler where the path...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Add support for Snowflake

Currently Snowflake has about 16% of the market share for cloud databases. Two or three customers have requested support for it.
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Delivered

Index Access for MERGE sql

The sql MERGE should simplify the life of a developer. Instead of implementing an insert update logic you could just use a sql statement with merge. In case of a merge statement is to update an index column this index can't be used in the access p...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Support for additional DOCUMENT TYPES in Watson Discovery

We're dealing with many different document types and our ability to focus on Watson is limited but its support for only basic document/artifact types in Watson Discovery document injestion. We encounter many but by percentage here are our top 10...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Kafka connector needs OAuth2 authentication option

IBM Customer - Canadian Tire has company wide policy to use OAuth2 authentication when connecting to Kafka. Currently Kafka connector doesn't support it nor it is in plans
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Enable Podman support for Symphony 7.3.1

We are running Sym 7.3.1 with couple of patches from IBM and now we are looking for running container workload in RHEL8 Podman. We will need Podman support for Sym 7.3.1 on RHEL8.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Delivered

Increase Password Size for DB2 Supplied Stored Procedures

We have recently converted from passwords to pass phrases. A number of the IBM supplied stored procedures have passwords limited to VARCHAR(24) and our InfoSec dept is requiring at least 25 at preferably up to 32 chars. These stored procedures do ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Visual Modeler interface for CPLEX in DSX

In our current DSX offering we enable programmatic access with Python API for CPLEX engine to solve optimization problems. Leveraging this capability requires a user to have deep technical and programming skills. Iterating across scenarios with mo...