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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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add indexes in MWH for BICFI from/to in BAH of InterAct messages' payload.

The SWIFT IA services esmig.t2 and ebacl.e1s1 will introduce the "V-Shape" model with the HVPS migration to ISO20022 in Nov 2022, whereas the ESMIG and E1S1 Operators will always be the Requestor or Responder in the IA-header but not the "correspo...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

Request Optim to support Java 11 as Java 8 is no longer supported.

Currently Optim only allows for Java 8 which is no longer allowed to be used at the client site.
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Future consideration

SQLJ Add support for use of Java Array in IN predicate

We would like to see support of Java type ARRAY for IN-LISTs. The use case would look like: SqljCtx sqljCtx = getSqljCtx(); Array fkpzOfflKtoIdsArray = sqljCtx.getConnection().createArrayOf("TIMESTAMP", fkpzOfflKtoIds); FremdkontoOfflineIterator i...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Random Sampling of Alerts

Allow for random sampling of alerts from the case selection page. We conduct monthly QA processes that require us to pull a random selection of cases worked by each investigator. Currently we need to download all alerts worked by an investigator a...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Stop requiring Db2 to be run in a --privileged container

Using the ibmcom_db2 docker image, even when adding a license to it, or installing licensed Db2 to a container based on a supported O/S requires running in a docker container with the --privileged switch. This is not a good practice and cannot be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

datatype uuid in Datastage Greenplum Connector

The database of my source table is Greenplum. The datatype of a field is UUID but this doesn't exists in Datastage. When I import the table definitions of this table then then the SQL type is -11.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Permission on (specific) query based on user role, user group or user

It should be possible to restrict a query or a group of queries within a mandator to specific user roles, user groups (for cases) or even specific users (e.g. private queries). Currently every user that has the "view query" permission sees and can...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Evaluate using io_uring for I/O in Informix Linux Platform

Create some performance tests and evaluate an architecture change in Informix to migrate AIO or Kernel AIO to using kernel io_uring Maybe it's not possible to use io_uring in Informix and nowadays, performance increase from using IO_DIRECT KAIO to...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

watsonx.ai to allow the clients to retrain or build their foundational models on IBM HPC (VELA)

Our customer participated in watsonx.ai early adoption program, and has raised critical points required for Enterprise consumption of foundational models. They want to build and retrain the foundational models in watsonx.ai hosted on IBM HPC compu...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration