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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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Logical Backup

Create “loadable” files foe objects rather than table space dumps. Only base table contents, no indexes
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Migration from SMS/Raw to AS

How to move the thousands DBs which use a combination of SMS (syscatspace) and RAW to full automatic storage. Some DBs are 100+TB so unload/load is not an option. Need a date for elimination of SMS/RAW support to determine our priotiy!
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

RP Tables syntax

If the “INDEX IN” option is left off the index goes in the default TSP. There is no way to change this later
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

run SPSS processes in the cloud version

Need the ability to schedule a job for spss flows in the watson cloud version
almost 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Planned for future release

SPSS handling of Foreign characters

Data being extracted from a data warehouse contain foreign characters. There are characters are not part of the world writing systems. Any attempt to load these datasets to a Netezza Database always fails
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

a user-accessible interface to disable the telnet port in a permanent way

our security team considers the telnet port less secure and therefore would like us to block it. currently this needs to be done by an IBM service engineer after each SW update, we would like for a more comfortable way to do this which will also b...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Runstats report only

Add the option report to the runstats utility to display the up to date statistics without updating the catalog tables
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

MDM CE

Password decodable issue in MDM Application. MDM Product Version :- 11.6 IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Collaboration Issue Description :- While security testing, team found below HIGH vulnerability Problem Statement :- It was observed...
almost 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Functionality already exists

Performance of Admin UI Import very slow compared with Object Manager importing the same XML

The performance of Admin UI Import is much slower for Object Types and Profiles than Object Manager. The same XML files when loaded via object manager vs Admin UI import timings are below: - Object Type = SOXDocument, SOXExternalDocument. UI = 1 H...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Is a defect

Zelle Debit card payments need to have an outbound Entry Date of Business Day + 1

The outbound entry date to be the next business date, so as not to incur same day ACH charges. The described behavior is how regular Zelle transactions behave. This defect is reported in case TS002989275. IBM L3 will not address this defect via...
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Zelle 1 Functionality already exists