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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 Multiple Dataset Inputs to DSN1PRNT

Allow more than 1 input dataset for use with the DSN1PRNT stand-alone utility. This would function as a concatenated list under the SYSUT1 DD.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PAW Action Button item box for Lists is too small

When you link a parameter to a List control type, the control detail field is used to capture the items to be displayed in the list. To see or edit the items you need to copy and paste outside of PAW to Notepad or similar.For example, a short list...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

bhosts and lshosts should have an option to let them perform more like the scheduler

Currently, if I have a host with two exclusive resources in the lsf.cluster file <hostname> <model> <type> 1 () () () (!res1 !res2) If I run the following bhosts command, it acts like "grep" instead of like the scheduler, and rep...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhancement of compression algorithm used by DB2

We have noticed that the compression ratio (PAGESAVE) for first partition of a Partitioned TS is 0% after running an IBM Reorg Utility. The reason why PAGESAVE/compression ratio for that first Partition is 0% is caused because many initial rows in...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM OpenPages required to retrieve password from CyberArk

To integrate OpenPages with CyberArk Agent for password retrieval, the current OpenPages approach of storing encrypted password on OpenPages server is not acceptable. IBM OpenPages needs to retrieve password from CyberArk Agent on-demand using one...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Delivered

Lock table (or database) in exclusive mode does not work as expected in HDR

If one attempts to update a table with many rows in an HDR environment with updateable secondary code like this does not work (if you are on the primary):begin work; lock table mytab in exclusive mode; update mytab set col1="xxx" where 1=1; commit...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

In depth Matching algorithm tuning should be performed in the UI, and not requiring a third party application like Postman or Insomnia

In the current state, we cannot tune the algorithm to the needs of CTC's customer context without having a technical counterpart who can access the JSON object. In a target state (ideal), we would be able to change the 1) source level threshold 2)...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Planned for future release

LISTAGG - Reduce workfile usage of function LISTAGG

The function LISTAGG uses a lot of workfile space. This can lead to abends, especially if there are many groups. This is the specific case where the problem occurred in our company: SELECT A.GES_SL, A.VNR, A.POS_LNR , SUBSTR(LISTAGG(TA_ID,'/') WIT...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

New IBM Watsonx for Enterprises based on IBM Cloud Satellite with CXL disaggregated Memory

This idea is important because of the following: 1- Ability for Enterprise solution based on the following: A- This idea will efficiently enabling the Watsonx orchestrate to manage, control and deployment the Generative LLM Models, RAGs, and Knowl...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Loading incremental sources will require full extract from Match360 to consuming systems

For our customer, sources will be loaded into Match 360 gradually. First 5 sources will go thru initial load and then ongoing inbound process will be turned on to apply updates thru ongoing_sync APIs. Match 360 itself is not a point of data consum...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Delivered