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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.

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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Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

Writing Iceberg data format working with specific catalog (for example Dremio)

Hi Using CPD Datastage tool, we can write a data in Iceberg format using Generic S3 component. But we want to write this iceberg format data that we wrote to a Storage volume to a desired catalog (Hive, Nessie, etc.). In this transfer, we cannot s...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow use of REORG DISCARD for DSNDB06.SYSTSUTL

The SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES is going to require pruning -- and presumably SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS will as well. With row-level locking, doing a mass delete to purge unneeded history objects could become an issue with too many held locks and would likely r...
2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enable Rule-Based Suppression of Measurement Drilldowns for Small Groups

We need the ability to define conditional rules that restrict the reporting of specific measurements when drilldowns result in small group sizes, so that compliance with privacy and ethical standards can be ensured and unintended efficiency analys...
2 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Configurable separation of data pools

Configuration option to allow / prohibit certain data pools to be joined. E.g. the total data Watsonx.BI has access to consist of multiple pools of data: DataPool A, B and C. Prohibit: Join of data pool A with data pool B Prohibit: Join of data po...
2 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

German language support

All documents and data on-site is in German. German is the primary business language.
2 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Efficient unloading from external tables to regular tables

As the focus has been shifting towards ELT and not ETL we would like to use the parquet ingest method on the NPSaaS. From the source to parquet, which is ingested through to external tables. All these features work good for now! However, now we ha...
9 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Provide alternate authentication method for system accounts (different from user authentication method)

Safer Payments v6.8 introduced full OIDC support. In this version, Safer Payments now does the "heavy lifting", communication directly with the IDP to retrieve an ID token containing the user's information. This is a great feature and works with a...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Data Management Console: Configure the Web Access with SSO or OAUTH2

Security policies of customers require SSO or OAUTH2 support instead of just user/password for authentication at Data Management Console (DMC).
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted