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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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Allow COPY with Templates to pick TAPE or DASD based on RTS

We are creating intraday Image Copy jobs that may contain a mix of small and large tables. We use Templates and Include/Exclude to determine which objects should go to TAPE and which should go to DASD. The threshold for what determines large or sm...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Securing Table Data from DBA Access

We have an application table that stores a quarterly key to encrypt/decrypt data in other tables, and need to protect these keys from DBA access (roque DBA potential). Using PERMISSION and TRUSTED CONTEXT helps some, but data can still be exposed ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Smart Document Understanding returns document structure

Right now, the output of SDU is aggregated into a JSON array. It would be great if SDU could return the parsed structure of the document. This way we can know for sure if this word in the document is a 'Table of Content' type, or 'Subtitle' type.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

#4 - TDF: Ability to use Optim zOS Legacy Tables (COBOL/PLI) as input to TDF

Based on a review of previous documents and our current experience with the Optim Test Data Fabrication tool, we are requesting the below items be considered as Requirements from State Farm for enhancements to the Optim Test Data Fabrication tool....
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Functionality already exists

Accessing Views from DB2 WoC in DSX

Currently, DSX provides the option to access only the tables created in DB2 WoC. However it would be really helpful if there were an option to access views as well from DB2 WoC.
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Functionality already exists

ER_DETAILS Table Does Not...

The ER_DETAILS table is not always updating. The client was trying to determine why 100's of entities were merging together. The client was not able to find the details of the merging entities in the ER_DETAILS table
almost 8 years ago in Identity Insight 0 Functionality already exists

Allow ODBC connector write to HIVE table /or File connector read HIVE table

1) ODBC connector for HIVe allows reading hive tables but doesn't work for writing hive table. It works - only very very slow and not acceptable for Big Data operation ( a few records in minutes). 1a. Additionally, If columns defined in UPPER case...
almost 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists