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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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Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) disabled - RFE raised for TS008415900 case

Hi Team, As part of security review, below vulnerability has been observed - The application "DSDesign.exe" executable was not using the DEP protection. Since DEP is disabled, arbitrary exploit codes can be written and executed from memory locatio...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add "Include Null Values" check box to Tab filters in Dashboards when using a Date column for the filter

Real-life scenario: In a data module there is a table with location data and another table with data relating to the location which includes a date column. Left join the two tables and some records will come back with null values in the date colum...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support Bulk Import for Custom Attribute and Data Class

术语自定义属性最好支持批量导入,数据类的匹配条件也支持批量导入,如通过CSV文件,添加一个新的定制字段列等方式。(Term custom attributes should preferably support bulk import, and data class matching conditions should also support bulk import, e.g. Via CSV file, adding a new custom field column, etc.)
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

DataStage connector for SalesForce should attempt reconnecting several times if connection is temporarily interrupted

This is referring to IBM Infosphere DataStage v11.5! I could not find this exact product in the list.ETL jobs that are connecting to SalesForce to fetch data do not extract all available data reliably. Sometimes the connection is briefly interrupt...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Allow creation "user named" hdfs files in Analytic Server

Although you can create Analytic Server Output that will write data in hdfs, it is generally creates a folder with the AS output name and a set of partition files inside it. On rerun, even if "overwrite" option is chosen on the AS Export node, new...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

flood of console with I/O error messages when Db2 is always tring to allocate/open LOGCOPY1 first for each LOG-READ request

Customer would like to avoid a flood of console with I/O error messages. The test environment and scenario is as follows.environment: - DB2 V11 DATA sharing (We have three MEMBER DB1A, DB2A, DB3A) - Q-Capture(IIDR for DB2 V10.2.1) server is runnin...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Testing coverage improvement request for DB2 on z/OS

The background of this request is the following PMR/APARs for DB2 on z/OS: PMR-72914, APAR-PI94071 PMR-72966, APAR-PI96017 PMR-73053, APAR-PI96110The customer encountered two-month delay of their integration testing due to the series of problems i...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Backout also if system errors occours using 'load resume yes backout yes'

Load resume yes backout yes should perform the backout process also when some system error occurs (ie.: space constraints on utility datasets), primarily in case of DISCARDS 1 specification.With this choice the customer wish to prefer the preserva...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications: we have the cognos application hosted on a linux oplatform. Due to this situation, we cannot use the dynamic masking as configured in MS SQL Server 2016. We do not want t...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration