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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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Include transform feature from Natural to Java

Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Needs more information

Publish the results from a project, a discovery process, or an enrichment process in CP4D IBM Knowledge Catalog to multiple catalogs at the same time

Because of the way the client wants to use IKC, they need to do multiple publications of different IKC objects in multiple catalogs in one operation.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

Customizability for Views and Filtering on Governance Artifact Sections and Catalog Overview Pages

From the catalog overview page or from governance artifact pages like the ones that list the business terms, classifications, etc., we want a way for a user to be able to customize what metadata fields they see. They should be able to choose from ...
16 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

new column alteration feature: enable SET GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP

Use Case: A table is created with the following column definition: TECHTIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP The clients use the table (already contains data records), so that values have already been generated ...
6 months ago in Db2 2 Needs more information

All users pre-defined user group should be configurable

All users pre-defined user group should be configurable. For example IKC gives All users user group pre-defined Category role 'Viewer'. We would like to all users to see drafts which means that we would like to define which category role All users...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Needs more information

Integrate use of Alation's delete API in the Manta to Alation connector to export lineage.

Recent discussion with IBM and the Alation vendor has clarified what lineage is actually shown in Alation for items that we previously thought would always be showing Manta's current lineage. Relative to this topic, Alation does not have an intern...
21 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Needs more information

Add Connector whit AWS Glue in IKC Saas

One of our largest clients needs IKC with Glue. Therefore, we need the team to develop the connector functionality.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Needs more information

Adding a search box for IMS Definitions when creating Virtual Tables

Currently, when creating IMS Virtual Tables, users must select a DBD and PSB from a dropdown list. However, since these follow a naming convention, finding the correct DBD or PSB can be time-consuming and inefficient. To improve usability, I propo...
4 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Needs more information

Add a "CREATE TENANT LIKE" functionality

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. For ease of use and the ability to spin up seperate tenants fast, a statement like "CREATE TENANT <new tenant name> LIKE <existin...
7 months ago in Db2 4 Needs more information

How to extract complete Lineage for Connection with API

We are unable to extract complete Lineage for connections and this is impacting the Lineage related jobs and ICP4D activities. Need API to extract complete Lineage for connection.
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Needs more information