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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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Add support for newly added functionality in Oracle 12.2: collations for columns

Case-Insensitive DatabaseOracle Database supports case-insensitive collations. By applying such collations to SQL operations, an application can perform string comparisons and matching in a case-insensitive way, independent of the language of the ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

introduce a parameter, which would control what message(s) / links are shown on (or hidden from) the output console

Default Import Job results returns page error lines/error links url though it should be configurable to redirect to the customized error reports generated in the document store for the implementation.
over 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Provide a less database centric view of data sources

The data platform needs to provide a less Database centric view of each supported data source. Currently any user wanting to move data from a source such as Salesforce is required to have a deep understanding of the database structure and associat...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Expose key capabilities via API to enable embedding in external product UI

The Watson data platform needs to expose all capabilities required to define a connection between a data source and Discovery, select the desired data elements to extract, transform the data, send to Discovery for ingestion, and maintain ongoing d...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Oracle ANYDATA Support

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ADMIN_CMD to support INGEST and INGEST SET

Tech Note describes how to use INGEST via ADMIN_CMD:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22006386 but using INGEST via ADMIN_CMD is not supported by IBM (see TS000004839 and TS000004925). In addition to support INGEST also INGEST SET c...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Support for masking in IDAA

Currently, IDAA does not support DB2 masks. This results in potentially inconsistent information being returned to user (depending on whether the query is routed to IDAA).
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add attachment file name to the schedule report "View run history" status screen

Please add the attachment report name to the schedule report's "View run history" screen so that Admins can see what report was attached to the scheduled report and was distributed.Also, if the attachment is different then the actual report name, ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Slow database activate

DB activation is too slow because of lots of tablespace containers. My customer think so much time is spent to check or open all tablespace containers. Please consider design change for faster activation.
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration