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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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Batch exception not available out of box

There is a business requirement not to reject the entire batch. We experimented with relaxing PAIN schema validation, but found that the code does not support that. (The result is unacceptable: a "Failed" batch will be interrupted at the point of ...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 1 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN diagnostic log record needs more information to be useful

The ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN diagnostic log record (type = 0x4400, subtype = 0x0083) lacks two crucial pieces of information as of DB2 V11 beta. 1. The inline length of the column if the added column is a LOB data type. 2. An indication that the col...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create utility to generate encrypted password in the same manner as AVZDRATH

Currently, AVZDRATH has the ability to take in an encrypted password as input, however there are no other utilities available to generate the encrypted password outside of AVZDRATH. Since our DVM support team will be responsible for managing the g...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

merge node: join small local dataset to large remote dataset by sending the local data literally in the sql query

In a merge node, when joining a small local dataset to a large remote database table, Modeler downloads the entire contents of the large table in order to perform the join. This is often prohibitive. Instead, if the local dataset is small enough (...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

terminate rollback

When database is rollback a long transaction , it may take a long time. User don't want to wait for rollback to finish. One scenario is that user has made a large change on a table that is not that important table so they are willing to drop it (o...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Option to fetch Sub Types while exporting the WKS ML model to use in Content Analytics

We have a requirement to use WKS ML model in Content Analytics. I have created subtypes in the WKS model for better understanding of the data. But I am not able to fetch those subtypes while exporting as there is only option to use mentions and re...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add retention policies to extract files

In Optim Test Data Management the Optim Extract file is only of use for a limited period and can contain sensitive information if it's the initial extract from a production system. Practically customers do not wish to, nor should they hang on to e...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Include a repeat counter for execution multiple times in Hierarchical stage.

Currently I know of a number of companies that are using the Hierarchical Stage (such as Walmart and Vanguard) for pulling data from cloud services such as ServiceNow or Archer. Because there is no looping structure within the Enterprise pallet (e...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Data Asset Status

Running a flow will populate a data asset and may make one think that it is available. We should be able to quickly view in the UI if that data asset is available.
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Limiting the query data size in LSF

We recently experienced problems with mbatchd due to the size of the query data. The following is IBM support team's comments. Based on query_info.log last Saturday, I saw many lines with same data size during 1 second. Each line indicates 1 query...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration