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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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Online InfoSphere backup

Currently the backup requires the InfoSphere services to be shutdown, before the application and database backup can be taken. We would like to be able to create a full system online backup, while the InfoSphere services are still running.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under 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.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Create Shortcut button in MER Msg EDITOR screen

PBB User expecting to have shortcut button to view the next message instead of user have to quit (return to the queue) then only to select the next message in FTM-MER 1) User excepting Next button after opening the message from Message List page 2...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

LSF should support output/error file path that exists only in a container

As of now LSF cannot handle a scenario where the output/error file path exists only in the container and does not exist on the underlying host where the container is running .For example:bsub -o <path_in_container_only> --app <my_bapp>...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data Replication CDC support AWS Glue Schema Registry

Idea: IIDR Kafka target on AWS (AWS MSK) should support AWS Glue Schema Registry. According to current documentation for IIDR version 11.4.0: By default, replicated data in the Kafka message is written in the Confluent Avro binary format. The foll...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

backup network connection fault does not cause appliance to fail during startup when primary connection available.

Diagnostic entries in the application log should indicate when a network connection has failed or when the appliance fails to start due to a network connection that indicates which failed. You should not have to send in a dump to discover local ne...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 z .

Hello, At the present time CP4D does not support certificate based authentication to DB2z for replication on DB2 open databases. We are forced to use a generic user with password which is not secure and not recommanded. Could you please develop th...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

WKC won't scan NESTED and REPEATED data_types in BigQuery

Nested Columns: WKC won't scan nested columnsBQ "Record" data type = Nested column Projects with nested columns are not ready for Go Live.Impact:• Will nullify nested columns• Some projects will be updated manually vs. others in WKC, so we'll be o...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

MER Find Message" function"

MER Find Message" function" There are more messages with TTKLC* other than the 5 messages but it shows up the "and more". The user cannot click on the "and more .." to navigate to the next messages. In the "Find Message" function at the Message En...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists

history bottleneck information restore

The client need record the bottleneck information at intervals out of MC into their monitor system.It's very useful for customer If we can store history information of some critical monitor information.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration