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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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New Database Parameter to Open Db2 for LUW Backup Files in Read-Only Mode for Deleting It

Refer to case TS005462380 for more details. Due to the rise in hackers targeting backup data files, our company has implemented Retention Lock on all backup files, including Db2 database backup files and archive log files, by changing the file per...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Manipulating a custom node from a stream script

want to manipulate a custom node from a stream script. Currently, it is possible to create a custom node from a stream script using "createAt", but it is not possible to set the value using "setPropertyValue". Since custom nodes cannot be manipula...
about 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Driver and stub object of spss.pyspark.runtime to be eased developing Python extension.

It is difficult to develop on extension nodes or custom node dialog builder. want a driver object for development. I'd like to write a code with the other IDE such as VSCode or Pycharm outside of Modeler. So I request the driver and stub object of...
about 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Include user first and last name in user selector fields that are exported from UI

When users export from FLV to create fastmap templates, user selector fields are exported with user id only, and many times the user may be an employee id/non-descript identifier, so it would be great to have an export option where the user select...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

CSDK support for static links under the latest GCC releases

Currently the only way to produce a statically linked utility using ESQL/C is to compile and link with a GCC release earlier than 5.5. The latest is v10. Messages look like this: art@Elbereth : ~/GoogleDrive/Latest $ esql -static -o dbstruct dbstr...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 4 Future consideration

Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Support for MongoDB version 4.x

Currently there is ODBC drivers for older versions of MongoDB but not for the latest version
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Allow package extensions to be added via UI

Often clients develop their own python packaes & libraries Not every client has a binary repository manager such as artifactory Clients can add their own libraries in WML using package extensions Currently those can only be created using the w...
about 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Future consideration

DB2 Certificate Authentication with HSM Support

DB2 certificate authenticated TLS/JDBC connections should be configurable at the client via the standard "DriverManager.getConnection()" mechanism, where parameters are added to indicate that TLS client certificate authentication will be used. It ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Variable labels in regression mobile tables (output) as in checked in options

Now variable name used in tables even "labels" setting used in options. Add new checkbox for variable naming for regression tables or make it behavior more general.
about 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration