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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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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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Shadow Column Creation "online"

Currently the shadow columns are very relevant with ER however it causes an outage and I dont see why we cant create them just as we create online indexes. Its the same concept and this would allow HDR database servers capable of migrating to ER w...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable Dropdown in PaFe (Excel) when cell lock is applied

Users like PaFe addin and comfortable working in excel. So the template developed in excel they want to protect using cell security provided by excel. This Pafe template will be used both online and offline commit purpose. It is observed that when...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 V12 Add Column HIGH_POSS_FUNCTION_LVL To SYSIBM.SYSLEVELUPDATES

Want an easy why to know the current HIGHEST POSSIBLE FUNCTION LEVEL and to track history of HIGHEST POSSIBLE FUNCTION LEVEL. Currently we are issuing the command, parsing the output, and storing it in a Db2 tablle.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow control of bufferpool selection on implicit tablespace create

Currently if you issue a CREATE TABLE and just specify a DATABASE, an implicit tablespace is created. It only uses the default bufferpool set at installation, panel DSNTIP1. Since the database is known, the default bufferpool specified for the dat...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Integration between GCP Catalog and WKC.

There is no integration currently between WKC and Google catalog. WKC can’t show Tags from Google catalog in WKC. WKC can’t show Query from a View when it is imported to Catalog.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Pushdown execution on Hadoop

Customer current Catalog tool(Informatica) supports Pushdown Execution/Computation on Hadoop clusters and they have dependencies on this, so for competitiveness...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

WKC needs to handle Complex Data Types

Just like how we process and use Integer, Char Data and other data types. Customer wanted to process Complex data Type(Array, Map,Struct, Union). So when I run MDI and MDE, it can work with Complex data Type too. Need to get the full list from the...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Logging in both Metadata Import and Enrichment don't have enough information to understand why an error has occurred

Customer feels that logs don't have enough information to understand why an error has occurred. Also feels if an import or an enrichment job takes long time to complete there is not much info in the logs to see how the jobs are progressing. The lo...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Change datatype of uploaded datafile

Change datatype of uploaded datafile After uploaded an uploaded datafile, a column has assigned the wrong datatype. It is string format but must be integer format
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

asntdiff Utility for Other-Vendor Databases that Does Not Require Federation

It is important for customers to be able to validate completeness and consistency of the data replicated by InfoSphere Data Replication (IDR) between source and target. The asntdiff utility performs this function. asntdiff only directly access...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration