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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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Backup/Restore GUI within HQ

One of the least enjoyable tasks is to using the archecker utility. Many times we need to restore just a row and/or rows in a table from an ontape backup. Restoring an entire database is easy from the command line. It would be very helpful if HQ c...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Future consideration

Rollforward should proactively determine if END OF LOGS will not be able to be reached

In a partitioned database environment, if there is some log file from a database partition that is missing, the database can only be recovered to a point in time where the log files from all database partitions are available. If only the log files...
12 months ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the send any report output to a separate file.

(This option will become unnecessary if Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags is implemented.)An option to print the report to external supplied filename, separate from the output. Name could be supplied by a “set variable” or pass as a...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path for RDBMS semi-structured(JSON, BLOB & CLOB) Columns

Problem : Currently Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path doesn't capture the RDBMS data dictionary beyond column level. There are multiple system which save the JSON/BLOB/CLOB into RDBMS columns. Need to have a way to represent the JSON/BLOB/CLO...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Add Gateway property to allow customer configuration of large file threshold for allowing other gateways to pick up waiting files

Large files currently use a hard coded 50% of fragmentation setting to determine if they are eligible to move from the currently assigned Gateway to another Gateway that may be available for processing. This can have the effect of backing up large...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Dump configs to standardized format for cluster comparisons

We have multiple stand-alone clusters, and frequently have issues with something working differently in one as opposed to another. The solution from our side is to use something like ansible/chef/cfEngine to build the clusters, but for our existin...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Data connections - GCP, Azure, AWS, Snowflake native connectivity

Lots of modern SAAS tools built from the ground up have direct connectors for popular data sources. Might be good to tick a few off that are common. Currently only ODBC and File Transfer (requires a SFTP orchestration tool) exist for PA cloud.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Special Fraud Index

We intend to have a special Fraud Index that is updated when a transaction is set as fraudulent. Currently, when we set transactions as fraudulent (using a merge) SaferPayments does not re-compute/insert indexes. We intend to have a new index typ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Document "autotune" paramerer for cpu and aio in the onconfig.std file.

Its is not easy to find any document that cover all three of 1) AUTO_TUNE 2) VPCLASS cpu,autotune,noage and 3) VPCLASS aio,autotune=1,noage. The onconfig.std file does not even mention "autotune", yet this is the best place to concisely let it be ...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration