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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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xsd files being flagged for having value set as 'unbounded'

xsd files being flagged for having value set as 'unbounded' Please refer to case TS019607811 Our bank code adheres to usual code scan tools that flag any security or vulnerabilities within code or configuration. As part of routine code promotion j...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

This would provide the requestor who wants to do a one stop shopping when looking for a state such as Advisory Reorg of all the tablespaces in that state.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Support Apache Hive connector in AutoAI with Kerberos Authentication

We are exploring ways to utilize the low-code tools available in CP4D to process the data straight from our main data source with is a Cloudera cluster. We connect to it using Apache Hive with Kerberos Credentials. Unfortunately we have seen mixed...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Add function LISTAGG like DB2 and Oracle

Every query which need to group by and concat few columns is impossible with informix. For example for this SQL : select t.tabname, c.constrname ,k.checktext, k.seqno from sysconstraints c, systables t , outer syschecks k where t.tabname = 'my...
over 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Support Differential Refresh on DB2 for i (iSeries/ IBMi)

Currently there is no support to perform differential refresh when source/target databases are DB2 for i (iSeries / IBM i) This requires target tables to be cleared to perform a refresh in case there were any issues in replication. We have product...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

PL/I demo assets

PL/I demo assets required to show case MVP and use cases to clients. Canadian Tire corp only has PL/I code and we require PL/I development support as well as PL/I samples to be loaded in Techzone to ramp up Understand phase with clients and then p...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

As cloud developer, I need small, easy to install IBM DB drivers for Node.js, Python, Go and more

When developing or working with containerized apps or even serverless technologies like FaaS (Function-as-a-Service), compact container sizes and quick and easy installation of all required components is essential. Contrast that with the big roadb...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Informix pure .NET Core driver

We need pure .NET Core driver. Currently we have to compile our programs with flags for 32 or 64 bit code which is against the idea of .NET Core portability. Also it leads to errors when we sent assemblies to incorrect environment. Driver on OpenS...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 6 Delivered

Controller Web: Data Entry for Accounts with intercompany code M

Data entry for accounts with intercompany code M is not possible in controller web, but should be possible.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration