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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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Power9 zlib accelerator for backup and log file compression

Db2 supports NX842 accelerator on AIX. This has some limitation like restoring of such an backup image is only possible on AIX and cannot be combined with AME and AMS and also requires a license key to enable it.Compression and decompression in so...
over 4 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

JSON data type should be supported in PostgreSQL engine as target

Today we cannot replicate JSON data type in Postgresql Database as target. No workaround is available. A critical project is blocked.
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Data mover: option for "bstage in -all" to preserve source directory structure

"bstage in -all" copies all source files into the job working directory, ignoring the source directory structure. We would like to have the option to preserve the directory structure of the source files when transferred, for example using an addit...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

REST API: Datasources

/api/v1/datasources currently returns only the items shown in the main (Glass? Carbon?) UI under Manage | Data Server Connections. This is a relatively new feature. Most of my data sources are in Administration Console... | Configuration | Data So...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Delivered

Update Business Terms in Catalog

If a business term name is updated, the catalog asset linked to the original business term should also reflect the new name. Ex: first draft business term (published): Medical Record Number, linked to 6 data assets in the Default catalog. second d...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 7 Delivered

CDC Replication from IMS to IDAA

Enable replication (Change Data Capture) from IMS to IDAA in the same manner as CDC for DB2
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Support for SQL Server in IKC reporting capabilities

Per this page in our docs, IKC currently only supports Oracle, Db2, Postgres for storing the reports. A large Federal customer has a significant need to leverage an existing data store in SQL Server for their governance reporting.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Audit History Dashboard drill-down to History details

When changes are made on the item, changes by attribute with old value and new value are available on single idem edit in tab Audit history in table History details. When looking at the Audit History Dashboard, there are columns for e.g. added and...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Enable the selection of any job data type to be a selectable filter in the Grid -> View Jobs Listing page in RTM

We manage our resources via resource pools that are allocated per service class. Therefore, we would like to view all jobs in a specific SLA. However, this data type is not selectable in the Grid -> View Jobs Listing page so we can't select thi...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered