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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

RPM Package for IBM DB2 Software Installation

Summary: Request for IBM to provide an RPM package for the installation of IBM DB2 software to facilitate easier deployment, management, and integration on RHEL. Description: IBM DB2 widely used database management system in our company. To improv...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Improved functionality for tablespace fast pre-allocation

My customer is experiencing huge performance problems due to Tablespace Pre-allocation (DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION).At this time, IOCP Timeout occurs in Db2 and many tossbuffers occur in GPFS.This customer has been struggling with this problem for...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 6 Future consideration

Better documentation on syscdr database

One might find it hard to understand and troubleshoot ER without proper knowledge and/or documentation. We should have better and detailed documentation about the syscdr database and its tables and views.
17 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Pipeline Explicit Compile Option on GUI

Pipeline Compilation Option (Similar to 11.7) It's observed that there's no explicit Compile option for Pipeline (Sequencer). It helps to check the changes made to the stages are correct and compiled, before running the job. On 11.7 - it allows to...
17 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Reject Link Support for Snowflake Stage

We are migrating from Oracle to Snowflake - where Oracle is designed to have a reject link to capture the errors, but for snowflake it's missing.
17 days ago in DataStage 4 Planned for future release

Component list for grouped elements in PAW

As a user I would like to see a component list of grouped elements. This helps me to navigate to the element I would like to change the properties for. Example: I have grouped a view and a text and a button. Now I would like to go to the propertie...
17 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support WITH RECURSIVE in PrestoDB (watsonx.data)

PrestoDB in watsonx.data doesn't support WITH RECURSIVE statement which is a blocker for selling watsonx.data to some of our potential customers. It would be important to have it supported as other data lakehouse solutions support it. For example ...
17 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Python 3.9 and Runtime environments in CP4D

As we’ve mentioned in regards to CP4D upgrades there are certain features/services that gets deprecated and removed in later versions For example Python 3.9 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x?topic=overview-whats-new#whats-new__d...