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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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Primary Keys should allow NOT TRUSTED

Currently you can create NOT ENFORCED primary keys but the optimizer will then always treat these as trusted. This causes problems when the constraint is violated but a filter includes all PK columns since the engine will return only one row even ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 5 Not under consideration

Provide SCOPE(GROUP) option for STOP/START PROFILE

Provide for a SCOPE(GROUP) option for START/STOP PROFILE commands similar to START/STOP PROCEDURE.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Data in the native format but text as English in TM1web & pmpsvc portal without changing the region/language settings

Sometimes user have the data in excel (may be some extract) and when they try to paste that data on web it doesn’t allow due to web having ‘.’ as decimal separator but excel having ‘,’ as decimal separator. So, to do that they first have to modify...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Persistent URL for glossary assets - do not change when new version is published.

Today, when a glossary asset (e.g., Term, Rule) is updated and published, its URL changes. The version number is appended to the end. We want a persistent URL that will always link to the current, active version of the glossary asset - no matter w...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

One-Fecht Index Scan for SELECT min(), max()

At the moment only a single SELECT min(a) or a SELECT max(a) uses a suitable index I(a, ...). When selecting both, min() and max(), a tablespace scan is used to determine the minimum and maximum value. With large tables this behaviour is very expe...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Enable DVM Access through Visual Studio Code

The Scenario: Currently we use Visual Studio Code for all development activities. Visual Studio Code acts as a single workstation. It is rich in libraries and plugins for distributed environments and Cloud environments. By using the ZOWE plug in, ...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 AI should discover and prevent deadlocks, for example in situations where programs that previously have been in deadlock situations are expected to deadlock again.

In deadlock situations, one of the involved programs will be rolled back, resources have been unnecessarily used and DBA’s must spend time investigating deadlocks. In transaction intensive systems deadlocks also may cause response time delays or o...
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 4 Not under consideration