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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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PDO_INFORMIX (CSDK > 2.9) do not recognize DBDATE environment variable

We are using Informix 12.10FC2WE (CSDK 4.1) with PHP and PHP is connected to the database by the PDO_INFORMIX Driver, which is based on the ODBC Driver. The Problem is that, the DBDATE environment variable is not recognized so the date values are ...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

MIGTPL tool in "-reherse" mode should not require UPDATE grants

MER template migration tool MIGTPL in "-reherse" mode should not require UPDATE grants. According to response from case TS006904127: "The tool was not written in the way to distinguish between rehearse and not rehearse mode in regard to the reques...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered

Support retrieval of data from IMS Secondary Index using DVM IMS Direct

We have in-house applications that stores data in an IMS Secondary Index database. The application would like to use DVM to retrieve data from their IMS INDEX DB. Currently in DVM V1.1.0 using IMS-Direct on an IMS Index is not supported. Applicati...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Expand Analytics Server Export to HCatalog

System: Analytic Server 2.1Actor: SPSS modeler 17.1 can export results data to Analytics Server via HCatalog Now SPSS modeler 17.1 can export results data to Analytics Server via flat file and Database. But in our system, we wish SPSS modeler 17.1...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 1 Not under consideration

Use decimal function for LIMITKEY value when a partition table is read by DB2 Connector stage of DataStage.

[System]We are planning to transfer data of an old database to a new one using DataStage jobs.Both of the databases are created on DB2 for z/OS.We have two environments. One is a production environment, the other is a rehearsal environment which i...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

VLDB - 358 Eliminate the need to define a set number of 32k and 4k tablespaces in the work file database

Instead of defining a set number of 4k and 32k tablespaces, it would simplify the process if we could allocate a set amount of space to the work database and allow DB2 to dynamically allocate the tablespaces as needed. As the page size requirement...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SPSS handling of Foreign characters

Data being extracted from a data warehouse contain foreign characters. There are characters are not part of the world writing systems. Any attempt to load these datasets to a Netezza Database always fails
almost 11 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Create a storage group in a specific database partition group.

After discussing with Pavel Sustr & Quentin Presley there is current no plans to for this hence the request. I'm copied the initial e-mail request. Is there any plan to allow storage group definition, in DPF, to apply to a particular dbpart gr...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable DB2 instances on AUFS (Docker)

DB2 can be installed on AUFS, but database instances cannot be created (see https://github.com/jeffbonhag/db2-docker/issues/2#issuecomment-52920986). DB2 express (and every other edition) uses O_DIRECT to access the file system, which is not avail...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow to connect own external entities

Hi.My idea is to make it possible to connect your own directory with entities. The dialogs contain data that must be detected in the conversation, e.g. city, street names, names, brands, car models and so on.Such data is difficult to enter in syst...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration