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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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Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Reference to the BSDS for example the full image copies of the CATALOG and DIRECTORY DB2 tablespaces which are not in SYSCOPY

There are several (4 in DB2 v12) catalog and directory tablespaces for which the full image copies are not referenced in the SYSCOPY.Thus, during a DB2 cat/dir recovery (recovery exercise or other...) these FICs are searched directly in the DB2 lo...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Remove Group Based Access Limitation

Description of Limitation: IBM has defined a few limitations with role based access which include the following: A role cannot own database objects. Permissions and roles granted to groups are not considered when you create the following database ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Future consideration

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

Do not refresh the sheet when changing SUBNM with data changed

<As is> If we would like to update inputting data we input them at Web sheet, then click the refresh button. But we can also update by changing search criteria after inputting. The problem is that it easy to imagine that user can change sea...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Calculated members in Dashboard

Hi, we asking for support calculated members in Dashboard component as it is support in Report
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scripting stages to handle Date objects without converting to Datetime

Right now, scripting stages in Data Collector automatically convert Date fields to Datetime as it passes through the pipeline. For example, the Jython Evaluator stage will take Date objects and map it to the java.util.Date class, adding a time com...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Support for Snowflake's Auto-Increment Feature

Snowflake tables may have columns which are set to be auto incremental and are the primary key for the table. While writing data to Snowflake the column values should be auto populated with incremental unique values. Currently when this field is n...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Feature to preserve offset between job runs and SDCs without enabling failover

Customer is requesting for an option in Control Hub to preserve the offset between job runs without enabling Job Failover. This is because they usually have only 1 SDC running at a time, but when they upgrade to a different SDC engine, they want t...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review