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,

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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.

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    Add Gateway property to allow customer configuration of large file threshold for allowing other gateways to pick up waiting files

    Large files currently use a hard coded 50% of fragmentation setting to determine if they are eligible to move from the currently assigned Gateway to another Gateway that may be available for processing. This can have the effect of backing up large...
    about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

    Document Data flow and transformations when using synch\sort.

    During a recent Discovery workshop for Watsonx code assistant for Z, customer is looking to modernize one of their monolith applications Power One, requested the following idea be logged as an RFE (request for enhancement) as this will benefit the...
    about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

    Review code comments, when analyzing orphaned code.

    During a recent Discovery workshop for Watsonx code assistant for Z, customer is looking to modernize one of their monolith applications Power One, requested the following idea be logged as an RFE (request for enhancement) as this will benefit the...
    about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

    Capture cost and path information for New SQL to help DBAs determine if there might be an access problem

    There is a new release of application code. Currently SQL/PA does a COMPARE of current and previous access paths. There is a hole for NEW SQL that takes a bad access path. DBAs need to know if this is occurring.
    over 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

    Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

    We have legacy ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE by CLOB/BLOB columns in the database... and we would avoid to touch our ESQL/C code. Informix can support simple type conversion. For e...
    over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance DB2 Load WHEN specification

    Coding the DB2 Load utility into table WHEN statement to allow for several specified values, not just one, is found in a given field, would be a useful enhancement.
    over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Add Regular Expressions for Project Limits and SLA Auto-Attach and Permissions

    We utilize hierarchical projects and at times we would like to allow certain projects and certain functions, both that are a part of the hierarchy to utilize an SLA, for example, assume that the project has three levels project_code:finance_code:f...
    over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

    Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
    about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

    Ability to use Questions in Calculations

    While Questions for a Questionnaire Assessment are not a full OpenPages object type, they are availalbe in reporting and via the UI. In order to utilise them more fully, it would be great to have the ability to retrieve answer values from Question...
    over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Masking function with GRANT per column

    Column masking has been great help in managing sensitive data and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).But today’s solution to know if a user has access to data without masking is to create a Mask using a CASE with SESSION_...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

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