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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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Enable using comment lines in Transformer Derivations

When coding business logic into a transformer derivation it would be quite handy to be able to use comment lines like it is possible in SQL or any other programing language
almost 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Read-Only user Role for Infosphere Datastage

We have a requirement to have a read-only user created to login to on IBM Infosphere datastage director client and only be able to view the logs and see the status of the ETL run.Among the current roles the datastage and quality stage operator is ...
almost 10 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Temporal Join Capabilities

The table reference syntax for temporal joins needs to be expanded to include effective ways to find rows across the tables that share time affectivity.The FOR BUSINESS_TIME / FOR SYSTEM_TIME syntax does not allow for references to columns from th...
almost 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

URL for JDBC without ending semi-colon in optional parameters

When using extra parameters for the connection in a JDBC URL, the complete URL should end with a semi-colon. However, other drivers for other RDBMS do not need the las semi-colon; actually, the semi-colon is only used for key/value separation, not...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Terminate a long running txn on the MDM Operational Server when a set timeout is reached at the Client.

When MDM txns are executed on the Operational Server (getParty for example), the calling Client stays connected until receiving a SUCCESS or FAILURE response from the server. Once the response is received, the connection is closed. In the case whe...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

VSAM Replication ends in error when a CF Structure is rebuild and has to be manually restarted.

When a CF Structure is rebuilt Replication ends in error with CECC0209E - error code 150011.Replication has to be restarted manually (or by our automation) when this occurs.We recognise that a CF rebuild is a rare event but it would be useful if R...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

Dedicated dispatcher for different data sources

We have configuration conflict to set up realm kerberos to connect to different HADOOP systems. In out krb5.conf, We have to hard-coded realm name for the HADOOP system. But this limits us to connect to other HADOOP systems that need different rea...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to export SPSS Modeler models into code language (C, Java)

SPSS Modeler should be able to export SPSS Modeler models into a Java or a C code file directly from its interface.
about 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Allow remote query execution inside a TRUSTED CONTEXT

A customer that has some customized "auditing" built on triggers would like to be able to differentiate the real user behind the application server. In theory they could use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to achieve this, either directly or better yet,...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Visual Modeler interface for CPLEX in DSX

In our current DSX offering we enable programmatic access with Python API for CPLEX engine to solve optimization problems. Leveraging this capability requires a user to have deep technical and programming skills. Iterating across scenarios with mo...