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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.

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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Remove limitation on tables with XMl column

Today there is some limitations on tables with XML column. For example, we can't alter the table with ALTER PARTITION partotion-clause for LIMITKEYS. This limit cause us to drop and recreate the table with a lot of data(xml) and for downtime. We a...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provision to carry out DML activities

1. Grants_On_Table/View 2. GRANT_EXECUTE_PLAN 3. GRANT_EXECUTE_PROCEDURE 4. GRANT_USE_ON_TABLESPACE 5. Grant Sequence
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable additional Watson services as optional enrichments

As part of enriching documents ingested into Discovery, users have indicated the need augment existing NLU enrichments with additional Watson services. Specifically, a user wanted to use personality insights and NLC to help surface insights on con...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add a monitoring table function to return transaction ids along with their commit times.

Goldman Sachs needs to know all the insert/update/delete operations against all tables updated by 1000s of applications along with their commit times. They dont want to use a replication. They want to use triggers that will be triggered on I/U/D o...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Database level optimization guideline

Currently when there is a problem with the access plan of the query, we generally ask customer to use guideline. Sometimes they cannot use guideline and we ask then to use optimization profile. Optimization profile works fine but there is a very...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Startup Chore respect MTQ setting

The processes called from a Startup Chore do not respect the MTQ setting, i.e., it only uses one CPU. When the startup chore calls a process to execute a ViewConstruct, using multiple CPUs is very desirable.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request twice daily backup for Planning Analytics Data

IBM is backing up the data tier on Planning Analytics once a day. We would suggest this be increased to twice a day.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to upgrade the MDM database while running docker deployment

Enable the Configure_MDM_Interactive.sh script to perform MDM database upgrade if required. When the script executes, it can take an input from the customer on whether database upgrade has to be performed and can invoke the upgrade if required. Th...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Customer requesting JSON data type support in 4GL

Two customer using 4GL as main development system, request support for JSON variables or JSON casting in 4GL for being able to use BSON columns in 4GL.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF

Creating this RFE based on the below response from IBM:This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF has been an 'issue' for a long time. I have verified that it still occurs in CA11. Unfortunately, it was deemed not to be a defect in...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration