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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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Let Capture build the transaction message with non-LOB columns first and LOB columns last instead of in strict column sequence order.

Please consider changing Capture to build transaction messages with all non-LOB data first, then add on the LOB data after all other non-LOB data no matter what the sequence numbers. This would prevent the risk of splitting a message on non-LOB da...

Allow to choose which reports can be added to the panel on the shared between different lines of business dashboard

So far there are only 2 options to choose which report can be added to the panels on the dashboard: 1. all reports as a tree of all published reports 2. profile reports As soon as the profile can be shared between different lines of business, they...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Fix Download of Manta exports when the export is large

Background When a user exports a large repository, the workflow completes successfully and the export text files are generated. However, downloading the resulting ZIP file often fails initially due to a timeout enforced by the load balancer (which...
3 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Remove the Privileges tab in IBM's Unified Management Server for z/OS

We use RACF as our external security manager for Db2 authorizations. Using the “Privileges” tab shows the internal Db2 permissions. We have two issues with this functionality : 1) We consider this a security exposure. We do not allow anyone that s...
about 1 month ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Submitted

Model Repository and Custom Repository Integration

The current state of watsonx.ai in terms of installing models is far away from our expectatins. You told us, that watsonx.ai should be a solution for business users, but if you want to load a model this is very complex, intransparent, time consume...
about 1 month ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

CDC add configurable pameter max_recs in library ifx-changestream-client-1.1.3

IBM library ifx-changestream-client-1.1.3 has a hardcoded parameter max_recs = 1, causing unacceptable lag in CDC operation. This lag can delays to several hours. Other solutions CDC with max_recs set to 64 on the same database can transmit data n...
10 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

Export the performance metrics has limitations in selecting metric ID's it allows only 8

monitor subscription performance metricIDs 107,108,109,118,1504,1104,1303,2402,2403,204,205,206,2101,207,208,209,216,2301; You can also export – below is the sample command export subscription performance snapshot name IIGTEST metricIDs 107,108,… ...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF

Please enhance MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF when the client connects toa non-catalog partition. This was highlighted in TS020092882 case "DPF-Non-Catalog-Node-Connection-Is-Not-SSL"This is useful to show correct ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

onmode -I <error No> should have an optional flag to automagically turn off the trapping

Real world, intermittently I see a 208 error from the app layer, typically in batches of 100 or so and normally at inconvenient times. This would allow me to set the onmode -I and walk away until the error trips and not having the server swamped w...
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted