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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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Functionality improvement for z/OS Connect EE Plugin

Is there a possibility that copy/paste functionality be added to the z/OS Connect EE Plugin. Specifically, the ability to copy data in and out of Copybooks and swaggers on the workbench/plugin. Currently, developers would need to ftp the copybooks...
3 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Submitted

Proposal for an Official CPLEX R Package for Seamless RStudio Integration

I’d like to suggest that IBM develop and maintain an official R package for the CPLEX solver. Today, R users must rely on a handful of hard-to-install third-party libraries, whereas competitors like Gurobi ship a polished “gurobi” package that ins...
3 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

support for hypervisor Nutanix Acropolis 5.10

support for hypervisor Nutanix Acropolis 5.10 or higher this is now supported for mdm 11.6.0.11 and higher though not supported for 11.6.0.2 which is the last version for Reference Data Management.
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Manta support for Informatica DEI "Data Engineering Integration"aka BDM "Big Data Management"

Informatica DEI or BDM is used extensivesly at our organization to read/write data from Hive tables and move data around the enterprise. having the ability to extract lineage automatically from this system, via Manta, would simply the effort requi...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

CHECK utility SHRLEVEL CHANGE with less dataset privileges

To run CHECK utility with SHRLEVEL CHANGE you need ALTER privilege to the VSAM dataset where the table-, LOB- or index data are stored as the shadow dataset is created with almost the same name as the original. This also mean that the user will be...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Cloud Events Data format support for Mainframe event streaming

Cloud Event ( https://cloudevents.io/ ) is an industry standard format that supports Open Telemetry based distributed tracing by default Please use trace & span along with timestamp linked logs, metrics for proper linkage of errors to particul...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Proper RACF Group based security policies with fine-grain role permissions

In enterprises, different employees perform different roles and they move across teams or have organisation changes. Current IIDR CDC product doesn't support proper RACF based group policies which means when a new user joins or leave a team, vario...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Make Db2 Connect ready for the future (which is already here)

Hi IBM Community, hi IBM Support, as part of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux version change, at the moment we have to set up many new server systems for the application software we support.Our application software relies heavily on DB2 and so the IBM D...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Global Correlation ID for VSAM/IAM and DB2 updates made by CICS transaction

It would be good if CDC provides global correlation ID to correlate DB2 and VSAM/IAM updates made by CICS transaction in a unit of work. For example: If CICS txn (TXN1) is updating the FILE1 (VSAM/IAM) and TABLE1 in a same unit of work, we are loo...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Submitted