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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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Add COALESCE function

Add a COALESCE function to Informix just like DB and many other databases have it.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Platform connections: add support of Azure AD authentication for Azure SQL Connector

Customer has a requirement to use only Active directory authentication for Azure SQL datasource. Futher, the use case involves Watson Query (DV) to consume that connection to import data from the Azure SQL server. Currently, Microsoft Azure SQL Da...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

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...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 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

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

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

User Interface for Published View-Only Data Catalog

A simplified, view only UI should be deployed for data consumers, analysts, and report developers who do not otherwise operate within the CP4D environment. The interface should be web based and light weight in nature with a flexible search functio...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Key Pair Authentication for Snowflake Target Agent for CDC

As per my organization's security standards, I need to use Key Pair authentication to connect to Snowflake. I need to also fetch the private key and passphrase from secret store. The private key and passphrase will be rotated in the secret store, ...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered