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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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Federation Issue on DB2 ORACLE COMPATIBLE databases when remote is NOT ORACLE COMPATIBLE

When a DB2 Oracle compatible (ORA) is federated against another DB2 DB that is NOT-ORAcle compatible, any select involving char columns results in not pushing down the request to the remote server and transmit the huge amount of records across the...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Commands should apply to result set only when using filtering

When using a command or function on a set of filtered objects, we would like to apply the command or function on the resultset, not the initial set.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

It should be chooseable OUTER of INNER JOIN in DV.

In DataVirtualization, we can create join view. But we can create only inner join view by using GUI. We know we can create outer join view by using SQL editor. But it is not acceptable from our customer.
about 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Planned for future release

Install InfoSphere Data Replication Agent on Azure SQL Database

User is migrating his database to Azure and they need to replicate data between MS-SQL Server (source) and Azure SQL Database (target).
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Not under consideration

Make XML tablespaces more portable

Currently, there are 3 different internal structures that Db2 uses for the implicitly created table inside an XML tablespace: 3 columns, 5 columns with the START_TS/END_TS fields as BINARY(8), and 5 columns with the START_TS/END_TS fields as BINAR...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create Column mask for any data type

With the attention on protecting sensitive customer data in our industry being very high, having a simple way to mask data on any table in any environment is a powerful tool. If a data element such as SSN is stored as an unformatted numeric, curre...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Logout - Browser's Title Bar

When user's logout the message that is presented to him is customizable in Application Text but the same message is also displayed as a document's title that is shown in a browser's title bar. Therefore it would be better to have additional Applic...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Enable Cp4d to run on AWS kubernetes

We are WEX users and now exploring CP4D. As we have very big environment, currently WEX manages all WEX components. Deploying CP4d adds another Openshift in addition RHEL. So the team has to support Cp4d, Openshift, RHEL and al add-ons. We are pla...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

No logging available for troublehsooting

With lot of excitements, we deployed CP4D on Openshift on-premise. Unfortunately we are uncovering issues one by one. One of key issue is troubleshooting. Example when discovery crawl shows no document, there is no information about why no documen...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Support spanned unload of XML columns

Although the documentation and the error message content if you try to do this suggests that this is possible, it isn't. We would like XML to be supported with spanned unloads just as LOB columns are today (and have been supported in the core IBM ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Planned for future release