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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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BACKUP DATABASE VENDOR AZURE

Please extend BACKUP DATABASE to support cloud vendor type of AZURE. Presently, DB2 only supports S3 protocols.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Future consideration

Define a mode more flexible for DEV or TEST environment

Possibility given in a development environment / phase to: - delete a field - rename a field - change its basic data type
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Add Query Store functionality to Informix and revert to Last Good Plan

Add functionality to Informix similar to SQL Server Query Store. SQL and plans are logged to a system database. Also if a plan gets worse then the server can learn and go back to the previous query plan if still valid. This would be helpful when t...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add ability to print deadlock information

Add ability to print deadlock infomation to the online.log. This should be possible to enable at the session level so if this is enabled for a session then if the session is involved as part of a deadlock the information will be written to the onl...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Search not showing all matching entries

Quite annoyingly, on several clients' systems we discovered that the default Search engine is not always finding the correct matches. I've researched further into this, and this occurs specifically for clients on a different locale than English. A...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Smart Document Uderstanding processing time

Real-life scenario: the user uploads a document and the extracted info are needed as input for another tool or ML model (real time scoring is needed). The customer experience suffers from the waiting time. The processing time of one document is to...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

IBM Z Common Data Provider template for the User Define SMF Record Type 249 cut by DVM

The customer is using IBM Z Common Data Provider (zCDP) to stream SMF records in real-time to their Splunk. zCDP provides policies for all the non user define SMF records, the SMF249 is a user define record, hence zCDP can't reference o it, so it ...
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 3 Planned for future release

Lock a dimension member

When is this going to be available?
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

PAW Transaction Log

Add a dropdown for users should not have to input Ability to query a consolidation. PAW only allows leaves to be selected. Auto-fit columns / Ability to resize columns....can't see full context.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Preinstalled Python libraries

We need some useful libraries in most cases to work with Python in Modeler Flows (Watson Studio AND Watson Machine Learning). It would be nice to have at least the following Python libraries: requests ibm_db ibm_watsonx_ai I know it can be install...
3 months ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Future consideration