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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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TRANSFER OWNERSHIP for entire schema

During SAP system migration all objects in a schema need TRANSFER OWNERSHIP. This takes quite long (many minutes) for > 100.000 objects.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Improve persistent thread concurrency

With the implementation of transactions with persistent threads (like pseudo wait-for-input on IMS) we have been facing some concurrency issues in our site, specially with HPU and batch programs that perform lock escalation. This happens because t...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Sending 1 email with multiple reports for a scheduled job

Looking for ability to create a single scheduled job that runs multiple reports (or report booklets) but send them all attached to a single email when completed.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Python (not Python for Spark) for python extension node needed.

want to use Python (not Python for Spark) for python extension node. pySpark has a quite big overhead. SparkDataFrame is not popular than pandas dataframe.
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Planned for future release

Enable Custom SQL for AWS Redshift connector

Problem statement: For all our ETL transformations across NYL, we use custom SQL to extract the data. Workaround in POC: We are using JDBC connector to read data from Redshift Database Benefits/values: Using native redshift connector wi...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 3

Multi select dropdown prompts

Hi Team, We woud love to have the multi-select value prompts as a drop down along with list or check box.I could see this functionality when I run the reports on IPAD but in desktop the reports aren't pretty with a list box.We have over 10 prompts...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Related Content Tab in Business Terms should present respective data type for each Data Asset Column and an option to print a .csv file

When the related content (Related Content Tab in Business Terms gov artifact) is a Data Asset Column type, its presentation must be accompanied by its respective data type. In addition, there must be the option to print a csv file for that generat...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Catalogs should have an alternative screen for showing / presenting Data Assets in a hierarchical way

Client is requesting a more contextual way, so to speak, of showing the Data Assets in the catalogs. The way the Data Assets are presented nowadays is considered loose. They should belong to a certain context. At the very least, there should be a ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Null Handling with CDC live audit setup

Problem Statement: In our current CDC setup tables are mapped with Live audit where supplementary logging is enabled only on primary key columns and for other columns supplementary logging is not enabled. And hence we cannot differentiate between ...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Ability to call REST APIs as a data source in Watson Query

We are currently probing the capabilities of Watson Query to support a data mesh architecture by acting as virtual layer over our heterogenous IT landscape, providing uniformly structured data services to the consumers. A large number of our data ...
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review