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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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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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DataDirect mysql driver not available for zLinux systems for Maria DB connectivity

The ODBC drivers for Maria DB connectors are not available for zLinux systems. By adding this feature all the users who are trying to connect to Maria DB connectors on Zlinux will be able to connect successfully as it will have the mysql drivers.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Password character check in installation software

Instead of having a list of valid characters displayed in some document/website would it be possible to display them prior to requesting the password for the infosphere datastage accounts. Demand for my secure passwords using special characters i...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

IIS DataStage needs encryption key rotation

The latest version of IIS DataStage 11.7.1 has no documented ability to be able to change any keys used to encrypt password type data in the product. Security best practices are to periodically rotate the keys.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Allow Future Values in Data for Time Series Modeling

A beer producer may want to incorporate the Super Bowl as an event in its week-based time series forecasts. The effect could be included in the source data as a flag field, in which 1's are entered for weeks in which the Super Bowl has occurred in...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Custom folders should be included in OPEN and SAVE dialog boxes...

If you are customizing a cognos analytics portal and remove the teamfolder to simplify the handling for the enduser (Extensions), there is a problem with accessing things between two customfolders. Example: Create a Reportview in one cutomfol...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Nodename Limited to 8 Characters(RIMS)

Appears nodename is limited to 8 characters. The hostname allows for 255 characters. Typically we use server name as nodename and the fully qualified server name with domain as hostname. SF is looking at pushing server names to 15 characters. Is t...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

SQL0437W warning should be eliminated(RIMS)

This customer is receiving the SQL0437W warning when the DB2 optimizer changes strategies, this warning makes applications and scripts fail. He is one of many customers complaining that it makes application and script fail. This warning should not...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure threshold for trigger to automatic resize(RIMS)

Some IT service providers for the financial industry in Germany have a high degree of automation. They are using AUTORESIZE for tablespaces. Unfortunately, the threshold cannot be specified and DB2 only extends the tablespace when it is full. In s...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

automatic maintenance backup -> more backup options(RIMS)

My customer asked how he can configure the automatic maintenance backup in detail (for example PARALLELISM or BUFFERS). It seems that this is NOT possible at the moment. You can only configure some simple options like the target path for example, ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Add ldrDataRdr to the diagnostic trace collection for problem resolution

Add the ldrDataRdr log files into the diagnostic trace package gathered for IDAA issues.
about 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration