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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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Convert LRSN to TIMESTAMP

We use CDC replication. When the replication stops for any reason there is a bookmark in the form of an LRSN. We need a way to convert that LRSN to a TIMESTAMP. We need this conversion to see if the LRSN is too old, so we do not have Arhive Logs t...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Add support for Db2 timestamp(12) data type in DataStage and CP4D

The Db2 data type timestamp(12) (timestamp with a precision up to 12 digits of the second) is not supported by DataStage. This data type is used and required for temporal tables in Db2 (LUW) and Db2 for z/OS. Temporal tables are a very helpful fun...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Replace the 404 page for SDC 6.0.0 with an Informational page like Platform's headless UI page.

This is really to stay consistent in Platform like when navigating to the SDC page to accept the certificate. The 404 page causes confusion as there might be something wrong. A replacement page with information that SDC 6 no longer has a UI would ...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

New Function UNHEX

New Function UNHEX (name subject to change/negotiation) We have a system where all CHAR columns are defined FOR BIT DATA. It seemed genius at the time to save a few bytes of data, not realizing the negative impact in future maintainability and in ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

IKC workflow mail notifications fine-tuning

If user is receiving lots of notifications from workflows, it would be good to have a bit more convenient e-mail content. Now when the e-mail notifications are created, the subject line basically says "Notification: Your task is completed" or some...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Automation of code (UNIX scripts) deployment to storage volumes for CPD DataStage service

This is for automation of code especially unix scripts used for ETL batch processing by DataStage service on CPD platform. DataStage service needs storage volumes for processing files which are accessible by both conductor & compute PODs on CP...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

DataStage : Trino connector

We need a connector for Trino in InfoSphere Datastage as Trino is not supported officially by IBM. PMR No : TS016068863
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Larger program limits must be supported by the Refactoring Assistant component.

We are unable to proceed with the POC because of this RA size restriction. This enhancement would benefit the client and CE. The Refactoring assistant is encountering an error when loading a program with ~1200 paragraphs. The error: IAYSD0023E A p...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

for loadSched memory if the submitted job has memory reservation the job should not be run if the nodes mem used + job memory reservation > loadSched memory limit

because users want to keep a certain amount of memory free. And currently the limit can be bypassed.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

Include "Adopted Date" in WK Feed Integration

We need to see the adoption date in OpenPages as we are building out compliance views regarding regulation changes. This would be the only way to accurately determine if regulation changes are being received and worked timely from WK. This update ...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review