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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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Improve performance of retrieving large result sets

Performance of Db2 client/server communications in a network environment needs to be significantly increased in cases where large amount of data (100s of MB or more) are being moved between Db2 server and remote client. This needs to be provided n...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add IBM Cloud Private Path as a connection type in the Common Core

We would like to demonstrate by IBM TechxcHange in October 2024 how we can integrate watsonx.ai cloud service with IBM Cloud Workloads connected via the IBM private network. Workloads include VMware, Oracle, SAP HANA, SQL etc or anything workload ...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

SSM restart by SD

Use case: we should ask SD try to restart SSM should it detect non-responsive SSM after a certain time of period (or after tried a number of times). Not only after detecting SSM's PID is gone or the underlying network connection is broken. The len...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered

Cognos Analytics Archive Location automatic reconnect after network disconnection

Jobs scheduled in Cognos Analytics began failing when using an Archive Location. An error indicating that the archive location file system root could not be found. The root cause was due to a network connection issue and as a result Cognos Analyti...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configure multiple certificates for the Replication Engine

The Replication Engine for Kafka currently uses a single keystore for the certificates used to encrypt both the connection to its source datastore and the connection to the targeted Schema Registry. Although it is possible to configure multiple ce...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Information Server 11.5 PDF MANUAL

System: Information Server 11.5Acotor: developer Many customers use an internal network environment.New developers can not access Help or online manuals for InformationServer 11.5.So, as in past versions, PDF manuals should be provided.
almost 9 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

Classic CDC to enable keep alive messages on the CDO connection

If there is no data changes to flow to the target , Classic CDC will leave the CDO connection idle. Something in the network path appears to be ending these connections such that when they are used after a period of inactivity z/OS Communications ...
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Request for supporting MQ automatic client reconnect

As we know, IBM MQ supports multi-instance configuration and automatic client reconnect since version 7.0.1. Recently we found the latest Q-Relication (11.4.0) even not support such a basic function( automatic client reconnect with multi-instance ...

Implementation of DATATYPE DECFLOAT in the creation of an index in DB2 for z/OS

The customer uses DATATYPE DECFLOAT to represent floating point numbers to a base of 10 instead of the base 2 to avoid rounding errors. On DB2 distributed the DATATYPE DECFLOAT is indexable and everything works as required. Requirement is that DAT...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Informix auditing (onaudit) should be able to record feprogram with the "start session" event

In 11.70 (or earlier) IBM enhanced the client tools and server so that a string for the "front end program" is sent to the server. This can be seen in the syssessions table if a compatible Client SDK or IConnect is used. It would be very useful fo...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration