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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Hi, Idea relates to business interfece (Persona UI) of MDM. When a user needs to enter binary attribute, for example to attach some documents, he/she selects png, jpeg, pdf files for that. After that, the user can preview uploaded png, jpeg. Howev...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

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Hi, Idea relates to business interfece (Persona UI) of MDM. When a user needs to enter binary attribute, for example to attach some documents, he/she selects png, jpeg, pdf files for that. After that, the user can preview uploaded png, jpeg. Howev...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

dsjob command provides -logpurging option.

When the customer runs many instances of a multi-instance job at the same time, the auto purging process sometimes removes wrong entries in the RT_STATUS file unexpectedly. This behavior causes a serious result, because dsjob with -jobinfo can not...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Collect I/O per LSF job as a resource to be reported to RTM

As number of CPUs per machine rises, the I/O to disk rises proportionally, but the bandwidth to the disk generally does not scale. We have found that in high-cpu machines, the system can grind to a near halt due to overload of the disk I/O. We can...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement for DB2 z/OS database backup/recovery

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT Database Recovery is probably the most critical area for DBAs and Application Support teams. As important as new features and performance are, Recovery is absolutely crucial – Production data loss is unacceptable, long databas...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Replicate Timezone portion for timestamp with time zone data type

IIDRCDC for PostgreSQL Source is relatively new IBM product that replicates data from PostgreSQL database. In this particular scenario, source is PostgreSQL and target is flat file using IIDRCDC Datastage product. Per IIDRCDC datatype support docu...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

DataStage server jobs are failing due to no ODBC connector support to load data into Snowflake database

Currently, we have several DataStage server jobs designed to solve a specific problem and running fine to extract data sourcing from flat files & SQL servers and targeting to Netezza database. Now we are in the process of migrating the on-prem...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

InformationServer Clients ISTOOL "site awareness"

The ISTOOL is not Active Directory site aware. As a result, the authentication of the multiple ISTOOL commands within the batch job loading metadata into IGC goes across our world-wide cluster of AD servers (including Singapore and London, England...
over 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Knox support in File Connector

Have the knox support in the file connector stage reading delimited file or orc file.
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

read text files with carriage returns in parallel jobs

PARALLEL job's Sequential File Stage throws an error reading a .csv file that contains a carriage return inside a char/varchar field. There is no option to read the data within a parallel job. SERVER job's Sequential File Stage has the column opti...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration