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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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OVF installation media

Package Information Server installations as OVF files. Our I.T. team wants to deploy future version of DataStage in a VMWare environment. OVF format would facilitate that. Our work around is to perform a standard installation into each virtual mac...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Add support for connecting to MS SQL server using domainname\username

Add support for connecting to MS SQL server using domainname\usernameIt is mandatory sometimes to not use actual sql userid and rather use the domainname\username.
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

More lax transaction level duplicate check for transactions that belong to a batch.

More lax transaction level duplicate check for transactions that belong to a batch.
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 1 Planned for future release

Include the TCH id in transaction details (AcctSvcrRef) of status message to channel for batch. Also in status messages to channel for individual payments.

Include the TCH id in transaction details (AcctSvcrRef) of status message to channel for batch. Also in status messages to channel for individual payments.
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 1 Functionality already exists

Make IDs (Transaction/Instruction ID) that are sent in message to TCH available when Fraud screening request is initiated. Currently this ID is assigned after they do the Fraud screening.

Currently this ID is assigned after they do the Fraud screening.
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 1 Functionality already exists

AODA - Avoid using tables to format text documents in columns unless the table can be linearized

The message was generated from Dynamic Assessment Plugin which is a tool to check accessibility. The tool is recommending not to use tables to format text in columns as the table cannot be linearized which is affecting WCAG section 1.3.2. However,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Value 00000 on variable &PART in TEMPLATE for partitioned by growth tablespaces

We would like that value of &PART becomes 00000 for partitioned by growth tablespaces on the template's DSN. The response on PMR 27187,999,838 is that this needs to be a RFE. As you can see in PMR 27187,999,838, we have processes that does a f...
over 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add columns to the RTS tables

The two real-time Statistics tables in the DB2 catalogue have lots of useful data. But they would much more useful if they had some additional columns: SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACESTATS#1 #Times row was updated since defined.#2 #Times row was updated sinc...
about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add retention policies to extract files

In Optim Test Data Management the Optim Extract file is only of use for a limited period and can contain sensitive information if it's the initial extract from a production system. Practically customers do not wish to, nor should they hang on to e...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Include a repeat counter for execution multiple times in Hierarchical stage.

Currently I know of a number of companies that are using the Hierarchical Stage (such as Walmart and Vanguard) for pulling data from cloud services such as ServiceNow or Archer. Because there is no looping structure within the Enterprise pallet (e...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration