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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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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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use of SET CURRENT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY for ONLINECHECK in db2sqljcustomize command

The SQLJ Profile Customizer command db2sqljcustomize (described in the DB2 11 for z/OS Application Programming Guide and Reference for Java) with the options -onlinecheck YES and -genDBRM is used to create a DB2 z/OS DBRM for a SQLJ Java program. ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Explain product names in installer

When installing, a name like CONSV o RTCL are not clear for people entering into the world of Db2. These names should be explained in from of them, like CONSV - Db2 Connect for zOS o i RTLN - Data server runtime client
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Classification process should automatically "learn" from users' manual overrides (per tenant)

Organizations may have a specific pattern for storing data such as person names that don't fit our OOTB regex. For example,names may be stored as "CADOW, EDWARD O (Ed)" in a given system. The inferred classification is Text rather than "Person Nam...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

FastLane for GDS messages

As a Master Data Management Administrator I want to have a meganism (FastLane) that can priorities messages from datapools So that updates on items that are in the (Selection) Workflow are handled directly.
almost 8 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

IIDR CDC : PostgreSQL source, Provide microseconds precision to DM_TIMESTAMP

IIDRCDC for PostgreSQL Source is relatively new IBM product that replicates data from PostgreSQL database. In this particular scenario, source is PostgreSQL and target is flat file using IIDR CDC Datastage product. IIDRCDC generates source commit ...
about 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Exclusive security for historical rates on journals

One of our consumers asked us to block access to the Historical Rates table, but leave it available for puting data on journal entries only, so users cannot see they can put historical rates for all accounts that allows that.
about 5 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to pre-filter data before dq rule execution

Currently we have a workaround using DataStage flows which is very complicated for end users to do themselves. We here in 2H 2023 there will be something using virtual tables?
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Downloading and exporting assets should also be recorded in the project activity log

I see below information, CSV file downloads and project asset exports will not be recorded in this log. I have actually tested this and it is not recorded. Some of our customers want to see who used what data and who took it out for audit purpos...
about 5 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Configurable Data Classification Meta Data Field

My clients have requested a data classification field for a data asset which has a configurable domain of values. For example, an administrator for a customer can define this field to have Public, Confidential, Highly Confidential and Restricted (...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release