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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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Add generated always for each row on update as row change SESSION_USER

Currently exists in Db2 to change current timestamp on INSERT and UPDATE with generated statement like: create table myschema.mytable (id int, last_timestamp timestamp not null generated always for each row on update as row change timestamp) inser...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Allow to set/modify the same option in multiple esubs

Currently a specific option can only be set or modified once through an esub, even if multiple esub's are run. If an option is set a second time, the error message ... Conflict parameter <PARAMETER_NAME> - Ignored. appears. There are at leas...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Replacement of Rest API calls for XMETA information with database connectors for much much faster retrieval

Hello, My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach....
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Ability to externalize Statistics to RTS after Runstats

In seldom cases (~1%) Online Reorgs abend because the TOTALROWS column in the SYSTABLESPACESTATS are wrong. Then we do Runstats and update the RTS. The question is, why the number of rows is not externalized after doing a RUNSTATS. The value after...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add field SLA to job_status2 event in stream file.

Our business processes are based on SLA of the job and we want to do reporting of this job SLA. For job_finish2 event, SLA field is already present but in job_Status2 event in stream files, the SLA field is not present. We are blocked due to this ...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Option to have nested project structure and restrict the number of resources consumed at the root project level and sub project levels

Based on our experience, in a Corporate environment, there would be multiple business use cases running on a single Cloud Pak environment which is administered by a different admin team. Considering underlying resources could be limited and there ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Kerberos / SSL conflict

When Kerberos is enabled for users it blocks the usage of SSL for users that have local authentication. This is a bug that should be fixed but IBM persists this is working as designed so placing this here as an enhancement request. Enabling kerber...
about 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 2 Future consideration

Data traffic encryption

When kerberos authentication is enabled there is no way to have data traffic encrypted. Despite the fact that kerberos has that functionality IBM isn't taking advantage of it. Data traffic encryption is a security standard for years so this should...
about 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Future consideration

To include unsupervised (clustering) models to Watson Openscale/ Trust

To include unsupervised (clustering) models to Watson Openscale/ Trust
over 1 year ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

IBM Product Master (MDM CE) database documentation

The support team asked us to raise and Idea about the need for database documentation in the use of Product Master. We asked for such documentation (see PMR TS011634965 : https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/5003p00002lobUXAAY) and it was not available. ...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration