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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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Replication support for CICS Logstreams

My firm is currently using RRDF from E-Net to replicate CICS logstreams from a primary site to a contingency site. This is being done to support forward recovery of VSAM file updates in our CICS environment as well as replication of CICS user logs...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Clean Dimensions after Element Deletion

When in debug logging, it was noticed that deleted elements in dimensions would throw errors on cube load. e.g 9/2024 4:54 PM TM1.Cube Loading body for cube }StatsByRule 21116 Debug 07/29/2024 4:54 PM TM1.Cube.Loading Could not find element "Gen S...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Decimal Data Data type support for DataStage File Connector

Currently DataStage 11.5 does not support Decimal Data type with its File Connector. This RFE is to request the File Connector decimal data type support.
almost 8 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Tool for reporting last-used dates and extracting contents from MER templates.

a) A tool for reporting the last used-used timestamp of MER templates.Refer to MR0816126628 , MER: Templates should get a last-used timestamp.The tool should create a file/report that identifies and shows details of templates and also reports the ...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Optim audit tables retaining too much data

In the table Optim_Audit_Records, I see 1-2 records per archive/extract/insert. This appears to have started in Nov 2017 about when installed optim 11.3. Yet we have Optim Auditing turned off. So it appears that maybe Optim 11.3 started putting re...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

IDAA v7 uncrypted SSC dump files needed

When IBM asks customers to send IDAA dump files, SSC dump files are automatically encrypted when generated. Thus no way to see inside the encrypted files. Our policy (coming from regulation compliance) doen't allow us to send outside the company f...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Optim Separate File LOB Extract

Optim Connect does not offer a way to extract CLOBS or BLOB data types to separate files. If you have a file imbedded in a BLOB field a 3rd party tool is required to extract the data. Optim Connect does not have support for CLOBs and maps it t...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration

support for Decimal128 data type in nosqljson driver

please refer to case link below https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002mdjpkAAA/data-conversion-issue-when-loading-mongo-json-into-db2?language=en_US sample record in import file {"_id":{"$oid":"5a15e486cf8e89614439bf9d"},"dealerCode":"200...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Support JSON-Functions

More and more architecture decisions turning into service oriented architectures. In this case data is not available in relational tables anymore but eg. JSON files. In data modules JSON functions can be implemented to show report authors data in ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration