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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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Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
9 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Parameter 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' in Db2 LUW similar to Db2 z/OS

in Db2 z/OS there is a 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' parameter. We will need a similar parameter for Db2 LUW. Background: Our datawarehouse application 'IDH' uses many Bi-Temporal tables. An update of any row in the source system will lead to the logical t...
11 months ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Under review

Have the features and function available on system Z like scanning and refactoring ported to the IBM i COBOL/400

Useful to refactor the COBOL code in IBM i and to be able to migrate it to JAVA eventually. It will benefit all of IBM customers running on the IBM i platform. It should work same way as its working for Z platform.
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Enable client to automate restart of PA on Cloud

Enable client to automate restart of PA on Cloud
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Future consideration

bhist json format output, similar to bjobs -json

Programatically parsing bhist output takes effort and susceptible to occasional changes across versions. json format output similar to bjobs -json would ease the handling of bhist output through scripts.
27 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Store User Settings on Backend

When a user needs to clear browser cache and cookies they need to reconfigure their user settings in Platform (Control Hub). Please consider storing these settings on the backend so that users do not need to do this. The need to reconfigure negati...
27 days ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

Workbench also saving the database tree status

Currently the workbench preserves the status of the open tabs but the database tree visibility is managed elsewhere. The idea is that each workbench will keep its own tree visibility status. It would allow for a better separation of work between P...
27 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Display Origin Dataset and Data Source Metadata for Virtualized Assets in CP4D Data Virtualization

Currently, when visualizing virtualized assets in CP4D Data Virtualization, the UI does not display metadata indicating the origin dataset or the data source used to create a specific virtualized asset. This lack of information makes it challengin...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Capability to set custom property as mandatory

There are certain information which we require as mandatory metadata for the terms, rules categories and classifications. We would like to force users to fill this metadata by setting some custom properties as mandatory information.
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to download uploaded files from action button in PAW

Action buttons in PAW can be set up to allow users to upload a file to the uploads folder. Once the file has been uploaded, only modelers and administrators can see the file. Other/End users won't be able to see the files they may have uploaded. O...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted