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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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A utility should be provided to allow cloning of CP4D instances

For on-prem customers with prod and non-prod clusters, it is difficult to maintain a lower instance that reflects production. A production clone process / utility would be extremely helpful for upgrade evaluation, prototyping, troubleshooting and ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Lineage metadata captured in Manta from Cognos and Informatica Power Center prior to CP4D 4.7.x upgrade should be imported to WKC.

Manta is able to analyze many more source than CP4D can currently import. Owners of the CP4D+Manta license should be able to take full advantage of Manta's capabilities with confidence that the work will not have to be redone later.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

DVIPA used for failover and workload balancing for the IDFPORT

we have set up DVIPA for workload balancing and failover for the normal OEPORTNUMBER, but we would also like to have the IDFPORT be set up to use DVIPA to be able to fail over to different members of a DB2 group if 1 member of a group fails
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable EC2 instance tags for HostFactory instances in metadata service

At present, EC2 instances provisioned via HostFactory is based on the launch template definition controlled by IBM. We have requirements to segregate HostFactory instance into multiple resource groups based on resource tagging. Custom tags created...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Teradata connector restricts max Response Row size to 64K bytes only

We have data sources where column field lengths are in excess of varchar(3000), using the teradata connector with immediate mode, job fails with error "RDBMS code 9990: Response Row size exceeds 64K bytes and is incompatible with the Client softwa...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Secure the Wire Listener: Stop requiring clear text passwords

Currently, the only way to secure the wire listener is to put clear text passwords in the jsonListener.properties file. This is true both for the JDBC connection to the database and for the SSL keystore. There needs to be a way to keep those clear...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide SYSTEM / UNIQUE collation sequence support for column organized tables when codepage is 819

The lack of support for anything other than IDENTITY collation sequence for codepage 819 makes migration to BLU very difficult for customers who use it.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Informix native driver for Go programming language

We need an Informix native driver for the Go programming language.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

PAW : Error Logs in the PAW Screen

Hi Team, We use the Error logs when the processes fail. It would be great to show the Message logs in PAW. Currently through Architect/Perspective you can immediately to to Transaction Logs or Message Logs. It will speed up the development in PAW,...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW : Cube Views in the dropdown

We are using Architect/Perspective a lot. We would like to see the following abilities on Cube Viewer: Option to revert back to the original views(revert back) Provide an option to Undo the view Provide an option to select different view from the ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release