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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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[Integration Requirement] Possibility to select different memory allocation libraries

Summary: Provide the possibility to select different memory allocation libraries (implementing certain allocation/de-allocation algorithms) via application profile entry for the SSM. Proposed candidates: jemalloc and tcmalloc. They become necessar...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

best LLC formation service

If you’re looking to form an LLC, you probably already know that there are many options. Many entrepreneurs are uncomfortable with the idea of registering a limited liability company themselves, but also don’t have the budget to hire an attorney. ...
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Datastage on Hadoop: RFE: localize .odbc.ini automatically

What we want to see is that the ODBC connector stage can localize .odbc.ini through YARN, just in the way like Kerberos credential cache or keytab in file connector. So after each update of the .odbc.ini file on edge node, no manual intervention i...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

read text files with carriage returns in parallel jobs

PARALLEL job's Sequential File Stage throws an error reading a .csv file that contains a carriage return inside a char/varchar field. There is no option to read the data within a parallel job. SERVER job's Sequential File Stage has the column opti...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Change definition of the "_day_of_week" function for Sybase IQ

The "_day_of_week" function as defined for the Sybase IQ DBMS does not accurately account for the following two internal IQ connection properties: connection_property ('first_day_of_week')connection_property ('date_first_day_of_week') The current ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Connectivity from one server to other server in shared environment for Cognos tasks

If there is any functionality available in Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 by which we can connect to multiple servers from one server under one shared environment. For example, if I have a shared environment with 4 servers (A, B , C and D) can I login to...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Partition Read is not working in 9.1.2 for DB2 11.1 (LUW)

Partition Read feature in DataStage DB2 Connector stage is not working in 9.1.2 when connected to DB2 11.1 (LUW) PMR Resolution: IIS 9.1.2 does not currently support "DB2 v11.1.0.0". Right now for IIS 9.1.2, DB2 support versions are DB2 9.5.x, 9.7...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Allow to set Retention for Informix PSM backup images

Current Informix PSM will keep all backup images (Level 0, physical DBspaces backu, logical logs backup, config files backup) in a specific path in filesystem. PSM yet to have housekeeping tool on these backup images.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Return sql warning when zero/spaces are returned for invalid values in host files.

DVM allows us to turn on parameters like SQLENGIVZERO and SQLENGDFSHRC to handle situations where the underlying record contains invalid values or is shorter than the table structure. In cases where DVM converts values under the covers, a warning ...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered