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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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Provide an API for DSX

One really nice feature with Bluemix is that it is possible to automate creating and setting up services and applications. It would be good if an API existed for DSX so that we could automate tasks like: - create and delete projects - add/remove...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Delivered

IBM CDC Truncate Capture Options

A Truncate Operation in source is not getting captured if the target is file system. We need the Truncate Operation to be captured with as Event ID 9505 (Since it is a DDL operation) and the truncated records to appear at the target as "D" records...
about 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

DB2 LUW: Db2 utility to back up and restore the permissions and ownership values of Db2 files/directories

Requesting Rproduct improvement for Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. Problem description: This RFE solves a problem or deficiency within an IBM database product, Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. The problem is that users (with authority) mistakenly change...
over 8 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Dbexport/dbimport validate *_LOCALE vars before accessing data files

When working with UTF8 database, DB_LOCALE and CLIENT_LOCALE are required to interact correctly with the databases. This RFE is about issuing a warning to the DBA when doing a dbexport/dbimport with CLIENT_LOCALE unset, especially when DB_LOCALE i...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Update iisenc / encrypt.sh output to have per-installation private secret

I was horrified to be told that IBM Support has the capability to decrypt "encrypted" password values in the ISX file we were asked to provide. This should be impossible in a secure system. Given that it is possible to move encrypted values betwee...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

custom appender log4j2 logging and CJAP and SDK logging

Today there is no feasibility to log CJAP or our SDK based batch script into custom log file using log4j2/SLF4j implementation. Earlier we used to use log4j 1.x with log4j.properties file and able to log SDK/CJAP into our custom log file. With 11....
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Reclaim free space from chunks

Add a command to reclaim the free space (at the end of the chunk) , reducing the file size. This is very useful for cooked files. Just like SHRINKDATABASE at MS Sql Server, but for chunks....
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Stats Server File Level Security w/Internal Authentication

Add File Level Security to Statistics Server v23 and later while utilizing "Internal Authentication" identical to that of the File Level Security found in Modeler Server v17. This enhancement was made for Modeler Server v17. Internal Authenticatio...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Versioning of JS files

Whenever there is a deployment IPM end users need to clear cache otherwise IPM login does not work with SSO. After clearing cache it works fine. Also sometimes after Fix Pack upgrade or any UI changes, we have to explicitly ask the users to clear ...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration