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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.

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.

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Enable/Disable Triggers at a Session or SQL level

I need update a significant number of rows on a very large table that has triggers. If I run disable triggers that is affect all sessions and means I need to take the table offline, which really means I need to take the system down SQL similar to ...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to support a configurable list separator

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to configure list separator as semicolon. In Europe decimal notation is comma which means that MS Excel converts comma separated files to semicolon separated files automatically when loaded. This wil...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Help for complex utilities

For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Support lineage extraction from IBM Connect Direct

IBM Connect Direct is used widely at our organization to move data between several systems. If Manta is able to extract details of which data files are being moved, (given that the structure of the files are provided to Manta via other means - IFP...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

Allow option for or default option to turn "autocomplete" flag to off for password authentication in regards to the Jupyter notebooks

It is a low priority security vulnerability for web servers to allow password auto-completion. In most apps, this is a pretty simple fix, to configure the option to allow "autocomplete" to set to off. When I opened a ticket with IBM, their was not...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

IKC DQ should be able to trigger SPARK jobs to HADOOP

In Information Analyzer IBM has component called BIG QUALITY which, when used, pushed down Data Execution to HADOOP as SPARK job via APACHE LIVY. This functionality is not part of CP4D IKC DQ and remote plane is offered as solution. This would mea...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Provide use case level authorization in addition to the existing user level authorization

The idea is a use case related authorization to provide a more fine granular means than the current user based authorization. What we are looking for is that for each user the Active Directory will maintain a list of use cases the users are allowe...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Delivered

filter specific IDAA messages from being delivered to DB2.

All IDAA messages, once delivered to DB2, are wrapped in a DSNX881I message ID and displayed within DB2 and on the z/OS logs. In our case there was a VERY lengthy message of type /W3005/ which is delivered to us no less than 15 times a day for eac...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 4 Not under consideration