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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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IIDR Management Console incompatible to DB2 LUW LOAD Utility.

Change Data Capture (CDC) Subscriptions mirroring from DB2 LUW (Linux) to Event Server (JMS) are constantly failing due to some LOADs performed on DB2 LUW side. We must manually recycle affected LOAD table whenever they fail to restart the subscri...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

watsonx.ai SaaS HIPAA ready

We have a large healthcare client that requires HIPAA-ready services due to the nature of the use case: Medical Document Classification using watsonx.ai and Discovery SaaS. This is a deployment progression blocker issue, equating to ~$500k in reve...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 2

CM should report client IP and SLA when errors occur

Our connection managers routinely log failed client attempts to connect via the CM, but when this happens, it doesn't report the client's IP nor does it report the name of the SLA via which it's trying to connect. Both of these would be incredibly...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Future consideration

Message Type Options in “Create Template” should align with Message Domains

Create Template should align with MT and MX Domains, MX Domains should only be visible for MX queues MT Domains should only be visible for MT queues
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 4 Not under consideration

Mandatory Properties for Governance Artifacts

We have a new requirement to ensure that certain properties, including custom properties, for governance artifacts are mandatory. Specifically, the artifact cannot be published unless these mandatory properties are populated.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module: when you import a package in a data module, it is considered a black box that you cannot further process (add items, hide items, add calculations, etc. We want a package import to be ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW navigation button improvement

We propose to improve the function of the navigation button. Currently in the application, if the book contains a navigation button that opens another book in the same application, after clicking on the button another book is opened only separatel...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Update GUI to allow scripting-out of GUI actions

In our organization we are not allowed to do manual changes in Production using GUI, all changes have to be scripted, added to the version-management repository, tested in pre-Prod, and executed as a script, this way they are repeatable, auditable...
over 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DGTT - declare and use in one SQL statement (basically, this RFE is extension to syntax and functionality of DGTT)

Sometimes we use DGTT to hold complex result sets with many columns. We must DECLARE the DGTT first… and then second, INSERT into the DGTT The DECLARE requires us to think about each column name and type if we list them explicitly.OR. We can DECLA...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Software Hub support for Hashicorp Vault authentication using AppRole role id/secret id

Software Hub and Cloud Pak for Data services allow for vault and secrets using an external HashiCorp vault integration. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=2-managing-secrets-vaults#vaults__vaults-overview However, this configurat...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review