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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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Stop Service when $ Thresholds Met

After receiving an large bill , it was found that "Instances" were left running yet the Cloud was not being actively used. Solution would implement 1 of 3 suggestions below. Re: PAY AS YOU GO Accts 1. After so much time has passed when instances r...
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Extend 3000 bytes limitation of Key size

TS017762899 | Case Viewer While replicating a table that doesn't have a primary key, we want to be able to select all column as the key, which hits the 3000 hard limit on key length. We got this answer from Support on TS017762899: "A derived colum...
about 13 hours ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Ability to Control data mapping into Read Only fields (Fields that are read only due to calculations)

Currently, when a field was made read only due to calculation ( ie.. Using the field in the set operation of a calculation), When we use fastmap to load data into that field, it can't be overridden. This seems to be accurate from a perspective tha...
about 13 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Submitted

WCA4Z COA should scan for //JOBLIB in JCL and use it instead of //STEPLIB to pickup profiler load module

Some of the JCL will have many steps and the user have to modify ever single step for profiler load module. If we can able to add profiler load module PDS in //JOBLIB then it will avoid coding //STEPLIB in multiple places inside the JCL
about 14 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Allow relations to be defined between drafts

In certain cases we would like to leave terms/rules in draft state until they are 'ready' - meaning there is no published version. These objects should have relationships between them. Thus we'd need a way to create relationships between two draft...
about 19 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Keep in memory jobs killed over PTL (Pending Time Limit)

Hi, following suggestion in IBM support case. We see that jobs killed over PTL are immediately removed from LSF master memory so that even while a job ID was issued during submit, status check via bjobs/bhist does not find such job ID resulting in...
about 20 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Submitted

Changing host server for Database

In Infosphere Information Governance Catalog, it is not possible to change the Host Server for a database.Unfortunately, sometimes databases are moved from one server to another, and the only option we have is to make all the changes manually:- Ex...
about 22 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Support for Kafka "Client-Side Field Level Encryption" in Apply for Kafka

Confluent had released Client-Side Field Level Encryption to their on-prem offering as early access similar to the support they had for Confluent Cloud. We like to make use of this feature to secure our sensitive data. Can IBM add this support in ...
1 day ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add Option to Truncate Table in Destination Stage Before Inserting Data

In many data transfer scenarios, it is essential to ensure that the destination table is empty before inserting a fresh set of data. Currently, this requires the creation of a separate pipeline to truncate the table, followed by an orchestration p...
2 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Barcode Font missing in cp4d cognos analytics

Cognos analytics on cp4d does not support barcode fonts. Barcode fonts are not available. This a big gap when migrating from cognos on windows platform to cognos cp4d platform, as we have reports that displays barcode for frequent/daily scanning.
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted