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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.

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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Enable rolling restarts of SDC as a standard pattern.

Currently, there are too many restarts of the SDC and all the SDC's dependent on the change in the deployment need to be restarted. Lets enable the restats to happen in a rolling manner, one SDC at a time. This capability is kind of available in a...
25 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Enable self-service deployment of new JARs, JKS and custom libraries without requiring NFS or S3 buckets and without requiring SDC restarts

Very often users want to add new jars or have their own java key stores. Currently, these are done administratively and that too requires an S3 or NFS location and then requires a restart of the data collector. This involves engaging the administr...
25 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

Create explanatory documentation or announcements about the CP4D shift to knative eventing

In recent versions, IBM have moved away from the internal IBM Events Operator, to the open source knative-eventing. This has technical ramifications, which are minor. But customers should be given an explanation of this, and be forewarned that the...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Enable reading NUMBER(1) columns in New Oracle CDC stage as INTEGER rather than BYTE

There is an existing CI in the old system for this; adding it to the Ideas portal for customer visibility. StreamSets documentation explains that we convert Oracle's Number type to SDC data types based on precision and scale, converting NUMBER fie...
3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Workflows - Enhance the filtering capabilities when using the Associate objects operation

The Associate objects functionality is not easy to use, there are difficulties in doing the filtering for the association, I have problems with string comparison and just making it work in general. It would be nice to improve the usability of this...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Request support for Windows 2025

Add support for Windows 2025
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Under review

Prevent VPSIZE(0) Bufferpool

The idea would be to have a permission or rule in place to prevent an alter bufferpool to VPSIZE(0). As it can cause major problems.
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

support job submission from standalone container

currently, when trying to submit a job from a standalone we have a eauth error: Oct 15 17:37:44 2024 1467470 3 10.1 isRetryErrorType: Error type <79> is not defined in LSB_BSUB_ERR_RETRY. Failed in an LSF library call: External authenticatio...
28 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Under review

Risk to Risk Linkage

We propose that the SOXRisk object should adopt a recursive structure similar to the SOXBusiness Entity and Sub-Process objects. This adjustment would address frequent customer requirements where a risk higher in the business hierarchy needs to be...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 1 Under review