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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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When setting LSF_STRICT_CHECKING=N, an option is needed to suppress the warning messages during reconfig, ckconfig, or mbdrestart.

Customers hope to waive those relevant warning messages to avoid the management process.
17 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Management by RBA Capture Utility of offline DB2 in a Sysplex

At this time if we configure all DB2 we have in a Sysplex in all RBA capture utility we have errors messages on systems where DB2s are down. In a Sysplex and Datasharing groups DB2s members and Single instance could move from LPAR to LPAR dependin...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Drop indexes with uniquerule P and C

When a tablespace is converted from PBG to PBR or even PBR-PBG-PBR all indexes become non-partitioned. There will not be a solution to convert non-partitioned indexes to partitioned. Instead IBM point to DB24ZOS-I-553 to create new unique indexes ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Custom property restriction by Categories that applies to Categories

There are multiple cases where we have a need to restrict Category Custom properties to be shown/not shown
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Custom property restrictions by Classifications

There are some cases where Classification will require some custom properties to be shown or not for the artifacts
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

CDI pipeline for deploying IBM OpenPages changes

Developing API Endpoints for CI/CD Pipeline Integration with IBM OpenPages
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

chat based field

Sometime when multiple people are working on an Object they would like to provide the feedback. can there be a field like chat based . so that in that field only they can add comments.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Under review

Private / direct endpoint support for watsonx.data Presto and Milvus services

Several other database and storage services support private / direct endpoints within IBM Cloud. There are architectures for watsonx.data that do not need to leave the IBM Cloud from a network perspective and should be able to rely on private / di...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Under review