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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Add DSNL523I or DSNL519I for all available PORTs

Currently at DB2 startup, or when DDF is started, a DSNL523I or DSNL519I message is issued for the main DB2 PORT, the main SECPORT, and RESORT. I would like the same to be done for all available LOCATION ALIAS PORTs so our automation can validate ...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Generating Dataset record layout option should be available for the files in program flow graph

Hi Team, Once program flow graph is generated which is having references to files, If we right click on file it shows only Filter and properties option. Currently we should copy the file name and go to explore project , select Dataset record struc...

Impact analysis based on Data flow graph

Hi Team, Currently when we generate data flow graph , it goes with JCL/PROC/STEP/DD/Files hierarchy. We can show the control flow clearly from source file to destination file. At the same time if we have to show the data traceability from one of t...

Dimension Editing in PAW needs more Safeguards to Prevent Catastrophic changes

It is far to eash to "corrupt" a dimension in PAW. Others have noted that defaulting to dimension editing when double-clicking could allow admins to inadvertently make changes. The warning about immediately applying changes is helpful. My specific...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Parity of watsonx.data with Databricks and Snowflake Engines (Focus on Performance)

Dear IBM Product Team, I am writing to propose an urgent enhancement request for our watsonx.data service, specifically addressing the discrepancies in parity and performance between its implementation with Presto Java and Presto C++. Parity: Curr...
2 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Allow for clear text NEWAUTHID in SYSIBM.USERNAMES

We use SYSPROC.DSNLEUSR to encrypt usernames and passwords that are stored in the DSNLEUSR table, The procedure encrypts both NEWAUTHID and PASSWORD. It becomes difficult to manage the SYSIBM.USERNAMES table as we cannot see the NEWAUTHID in clear...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Alphabetical Sorting of Custom Attributes in Business Glossary Filters

When filtering the Business Glossary by Custom Attributes, the list of attributes appears unordered. We request that these attributes be listed alphabetically to improve user experience and ease of navigation during filtering.
3 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Auto-Assignment of Data Owner/Steward to Business Terms Based on Category

When a Data Owner or Steward is assigned to a Business Term Category, we would like that assignment to automatically propagate to all Business Terms under that category. This would significantly reduce manual overhead for governance roles.
3 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Reduce restrictions of ADD PARTITION

“ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION” is not available when target table holds uncommitted(not materialized) definition change. In most cases “MAXVALUE” is selected as limit key value because Partitioned-Table of TABLE-CONTROL cannot hold data exceeded the ...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve the flexibility of changing PARTITION key

When to change PARITITION keys in multiple PARTITIOIN, a validation routine to check the data consistency runs every time ALTER command (ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION) is executed. In most cases we change the key value for multiple PARTITION keys an...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review