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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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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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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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Visual Studio Add-Ins - Server Explorer - Data Connections - Equivalent Functionality to IBM Data Studio

Our shop is primarily .NET development and our application developers do much of the creation and management of database objects on DB2 z/OS (and soon Db2 - fka LUW). The VSAI Server Explorer feature is lacking much of the functionality of IBM Dat...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Support for TLS 1.2 in Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Office 10.2 is built on the .NET framework 0.4. TLS v1.2 isn't supported by the .NET Framework 0.4. We require support of TLS v1.2.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Security

· Restrict custom host name (shared with host) · Restrict custom domain name (shared with host) · Disable container network namespace (shared with host) · Use of valid, user owned UID/GIDs (UID namespace is shared with host) · Must not attemp...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Single self-contained Windows DLL for .net5/6

With Oracle or Microsoft, we have the possibility to just reference one DLL to get full access to those RDBMS without driver installation. The latest Nuget packages are a nice addition, but publishing a project with VS releases the full clidriver ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Grey out unsuitable nodes in NN modeler when building a new network

Studio's neural net modeler is designed to make NN development easier for novice data scientists/application developers. At the moment there is no assistance from the interface to guide developers through the process - they are left to trial and e...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Support LDAP as a centralized storage for Oracle TNS connection data

Oracle Database support storing the TNS connection information in a centralized manner by utilizing the LDAP services and protocol.Support for reading the connection details from LDAP is a built-in feature of Oracle Client.Centralized management o...
about 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

improve exception logging for connection strings in .NET connector for DB2

While we were attempting to setup SSL connectivity from a .NET app to a DB2 server, we were getting the following error:CLI0157E Error opening a file. SQLSTATE=HY507 a vast majority of the documentation available online (and IBM support) indicated...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

support for snapshot isolation in .Net code

Microsoft already supports IsolationLevel.Snapshot in .Net code.Informix has LAST COMMITTED isolation level which is equivalent.For some reasons in .NET code IsolationLevel.Snapshot is not supported on Informix database. Also there is no way to se...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

.NET Data Provider for Teradata

Ther Teradata DB gives the option to install the ".NET Data Provider for Teradata" database driver. Is it possible to implement it, so that you can choose this driver to connect to the Teradata DB in Cognos Analytics? Until now it is only possible...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types TEXT, BYTE and BOOLEAN

We are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. We currently use the Informix Client SDK ADO.Net drivers to access Informix databases using ADO.Net. When we tried to migrate to the IBM Data Server Driver (IBM.Data.DB2.dll) we fou...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration