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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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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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Informix HQ: Display kind of DBSpace type

Informix HQ (1.0.0 2019-02-07) has the functionality to display dbspaces (Storage --> Spaces). The Type column shows temporary dbspace, sbspace and dbspace. It does not show e.g. the Physical Log Dbspace. (onsta -d flag P). Furthermore HQ could...
almost 7 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Cobol to Java Transformation - Suppress Missing Copybook Error Message when Copybooks are not Required.

When preparing the Cobol to Java transformation, an Exclamation error message may be displayed indicating that copybooks are missing. “COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformat...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Enhance db2move to use remote LOAD from CLIENT

For migration of on premise Db2 database to a cloud service, the usability of db2move would help a lot.For now you have to use manual LOAD commands to load data for each single table to the Db2 on cloud service.db2move can be used from the on prem...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

json output for "badmin lsfproxyd status"

The new solution LSFProxyd does not dump status in json file. This RFE is to enable json output of "badmin lsfproxyd status" command.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Method to disable 'Select Server' prompt (using classic client)

Since Controller 11.0.1 FP2 IF2, the classic client now gives an extra 'Select Server' prompt/choice as soon as a user launches the client. The 'select server' selection screen appears *before* the 'Select Database' section (where the user chooses...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

auto clearance of "snappy" files

Snappy files are getting created while making AWS s3 connections under the path /dstmp. after sometime number files are getting larger and larger which may impact potential failures to jobs or environment level issues. to auto clean those IBM shou...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

On restore or chunk addition allow automatic creation of files in certain folders.

On restore or chunk creation allow automatic creation of cooked files. Add an onconfig parameter which contains a list of folders where automatic cooked chunk creation is allowed. Cooked chunk files can be automatically created in this folder of a...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Reading data from Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Need Datastage integration with Amazon SQS (simple queue service) to communicate JASON file
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

PAW SMTP notifications Password Risk - Make Encrypted Alternative Available

We wish to set up event notifications in PAW for a client. However, they are not willing to proceed with this because the bootstrap files requires SMTP login and password detials available in clear text. This is represents a major security risk. P...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Limit the no.of report output versions that can be saved in content store

our user community is new to cognos as we are migrating from business objects to cognos. All of the report output versions are saved in BO for some reason in the BO file system. we would like to limit that capability in cognos so users are forced ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists