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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.

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IBM.EntityFrameworkCore driver doesn't support GUID and BOOL data types with using db2 i series v7r1 databases

Hi, We are delevoping .Net Core project with EntityFrameworkCore that working with AS 400 i series Db2 V7R1. We use many data types but when we want to use bbolean or Guid field types Db2 says undefined name for boolean(bit) and Guid (uniqueidenti...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

The Hadoop name node GetFile Operation slowing down the job performance

While the dataset is getting generated, the segmented files with zero byte gets created first then the process start filling the data on the segmented files sequentially. If there isn’t enough volume to fill all the 8 segments ( CSDP uses 8 segmen...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Editing a job: showing job name on all "Edit job" screens

It would be nice to show the job name on every "Edit job" screen. Currently, the job name is shown on the 1st and 3rd screens (Define and Finish) but not on the 2nd screen (Select databases).
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

TM1Server Support SSL protocol for TLS 1.3

Support for TLS 1.3 is a need in 2023. It's something like the Windows server 2019 support for PAW arrived in 2022. Because the security vulnerabilities like log4j and other big media fuss the companies started to search for any hardening option. ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Controller Web - Automatic refresh of Counterpart information, without having to manually press 'Refresh' button

Customer has found that (in Controller Web) the values/entries inside 'Counterpart' are not updated in real-time. This means that the information/figures displayed are wrong! ++++++++++++++++++++++ Example: When looking at company #1102, inside th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Adding an exclude at the parent object such as TS, all dependent objects should be excluded without entering them

Currently to exclude an object such as TS, all dependent objects such as TB, VW, IX must entered also. This is extremely time consuming
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Hide the http ports from backend of the IBM Product Master Operator

In the current IPM Operator, the deployed IPM application connects to URL with HTTPS however the backend connection happens with HTTP port. The client wants to prevent any exposed open http port. They would like to have frontend and backend to con...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

TCR should automatically choose Debit or Credit Adjustment Type is the ADJ CODE can only be a DEBIT or CREDIT

When in TCR you must choose Debit or Credit Transaction type when Inserting an Adjustment. Some Adjustment are DEBIT only or CREDIT only so why does the USER need to select it should be pre-filled with the correct Transaction Type.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

Support for UR requested with column organized tables

Actually we're preparing a new Warehouse on DB2 BLU 11.5.5 on AIX using column organized tables. In an early technical examination we found, that concurrent access under isolation level UR ( reporting application ) and updating the same rows will ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Automatic deletion of empty SYSDISC datasets

BMC LOAD...DELETEFILES YES SYSDISC YES causes an empty SYSDISC file to be deleted. Also it appears this happens automatically when PARALLEL is used with the IBM utility but only with PARALLEL.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration