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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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Enable Percentage as a Data Type

Enable Percentage as a Data Type. This ensures that the presentation layer can clearly indicate a Percentage type number. As this is lacking Solution Design need to use a string type and perform multiple validation to achieve this purpose.
about 3 years ago in Product Master 6 Not under consideration

Provide an FTM MER configuration to approve or deny a received message that fails RMA . Request to add a requirement to create such an extension to queues of purpose CONFIRM (to allow approve/deny RMA).

To enable received messages that fail RMA to be processed in a MER queue defined as confim, ValidateRM and the actions approve/deny RMA.
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Text alerts notification instead of only email alerts

it would be nice if we could get text alerts sent to specific phone numbers instead of only getting email alerts
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2Warehouse on Cloud temporary tablespaces

・Db2Warehouse on Cloud temporary tablespaces ・ Function improvement request target: Db2Warehouse on Cloud ・ Request A specific SQL process causes the entire DB to stop. I want you to improve this. ・ Details If SQL that uses a lot of temporar...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

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.
over 6 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...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

restore to point in time when using external table with archecker

With IDS11.7 , when using external table, I could only restore the table being deleted from the instance Level 0 backup with archecker, can't restore those data from logical log. If i use normal table, archecker could restore the data from both th...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

HL7 parser/creator/connector

no solution yet
about 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Future consideration