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


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Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Add 'Sign off Plan step' to action buttons

This would be beneficial to anyone using applications and plans. If the same sort of functionality as running processes was added for menus. Which plan, which step, synchronise dimension for the approval group. Could auto sign off steps from runni...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

autoexplain

Hi, With postreSQL, it is possible to have execution plans of slow statements automatically, without having to run EXPLAIN by hand. Wtih differents formats : text, xml, json, yaml. These plans are generated when a query exceeds a duration, the val...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Switch DNS server for ALL Quick /Exploration reports to backup if prod fails

Assuming I am running a PAL/PAW/PAW setup and at the same time I have a backup system which is doing an hourly backup of my entire production system. If my production system gets corrupted, then I can immediately switch over to my backup setup so ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Actifio (VDP) AGM Manager UI does not display appropriate message when Snapshot pool is full

During the Backup restore process, when allocated Snapshot pool is full and an internal error gets generated, UI is not getting this message propagated to the user who is executing the restore task. User is expecting proper logging message or a UI...
about 2 years ago in Optim 1 Future consideration

DB2 RCAC Masking usage enhancement

This is urgent request to enhance RCAC masking rule. We are using it on several systems but due to below limitation or bug we have to use static hardcoded values in the masking rule, which is lot of manual process and impose security risk. This fe...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow BACKUP_FILTER to be set by onmode command

Informix version 12.10.FC13 - on Solaris server I want to use different BACKUP_FILTER settings for onbar and ontape. I use onbar for daily backups and logs and ontape for syncing RSS. For onbar - BACKUP_FILTER = /opt/csw/bin/pigz -1 -p 2 -b 25...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create entities based on coreference of previously detected entities

In order to detect a navigation path in a HR application I would like to be able to replace on the fly the pronouns with previously used nouns in order to better detect the current navigation path. Example: Are there any Iphones available as compa...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Be able to adjust/customize the output of the NLP before the Node processing phase

Depending on the output of the NLP, some entities could have specific enrichments that are needed to decide the next node processing output. The enrichments could be wether obtained from an external service, or simply by using a map of enrichments...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Have the option to create macro Enabled Excel Workbooks inside Cognos Analytics

Have the option to create macro Enabled Excel Workbooks. Along with this would be the ability to create macros while you are inside the Cognos Report Editor. So when the report is run the macro Enable Workbook is created with the macros that one d...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration