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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists

Mechanism to Lock ADMIN users from editing data inadvertently

A mechanism should be in place to Lock data so that members of the ADMIN group cannot inadvertently edit data.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Request IIS 11.3.x Client being certified and supported on Windows 10

Our company is moving toward windows 10 platform (from windows 7 currently). We would like request IIS 11.3.x Client being certified and supported on Windows 10.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Browser based Usage of SPSS Modeler

Hi all, it would be great if SPSS Modeler could be provided via Browser and not as a Client Installation. First problem for us is: To maintain all client installations at our company is nearly impossible. We could use Citrix, but the authenticatio...
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Support retrieval of data from IMS Secondary Index using DVM IMS Direct

We have in-house applications that stores data in an IMS Secondary Index database. The application would like to use DVM to retrieve data from their IMS INDEX DB. Currently in DVM V1.1.0 using IMS-Direct on an IMS Index is not supported. Applicati...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for importing, managing, and providing lineage reporting for Cognos and other BI tools

There are 2 pieces here IMO LOB viz/dashboards based on catalog Harvest of CA metadata into catalog for audit/compliance. #1 is CA looking into catalog #2 is using Catalog like IGC to manage compliance/lineage. Catalog pulling from Cognos. Al...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Windows Services Account

please allow the services installed by IBM for DataStage on a Windows server to use an Active Directory account instead of a local account.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Provide the ability to create a Catalog using a single Cloud Object Storage bucket

Provide the ability to create a Catalog against a single Cloud Object Storage bucket. This provides several benefits: - The ability to use a Cloud Object Storage bucket as an "Incoming Destination" to quarantine all new content - It enables a s...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Information Server 11.5 support for Oracle 12R2 (12.2.1)

Oracles latest release 12R2 is unsupported by IBM. This request is for a jdbc driver that is compatible with 12R2.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Support of Oracle 12 release 2

Are there any plans to provide patches for 11.5 and 11.3 that would make them compatible with Oracle 12.2? Can we escalate a request for those patches to be created? How quickly could we expect a patch if they will create one for us. If we have ou...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists