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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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Support S3 Buckets with Object Locks

Db2 already has an integration that supports directly writing/reading to/from to S3 buckets. Unfortunately this integration currently does not support buckets that use object locks. In such a case the following error pops up in the diagnostic log:...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Future consideration

Add optional WHERE condition to MERGE statement

Oracle supports an optional WHERE condition for insert/update/delete operations when using MERGE on the source or target table This could be handy in some situations to skip some rows if the condition is not true.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 should use the HWM value instead of total allocation for restores on AUTO storage dbs

This is general problem for db2 restore with automatic storage environments. The redirected restore requires total space allocated on source DB tablespaces instead of traditional HWM space requirements. This increases the space requirements on the...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Support cataloging Hive data in IBM Analytics Engine

Hive is a popular interface for querying data in the WDP. It is desirable that this data can be catalogued.
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 7 Not under consideration

Informix HQ: Display kind of DBSpace type

Informix HQ (1.0.0 2019-02-07) has the functionality to display dbspaces (Storage --> Spaces). The Type column shows temporary dbspace, sbspace and dbspace. It does not show e.g. the Physical Log Dbspace. (onsta -d flag P). Furthermore HQ could...
over 5 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Sort from one menu

We can sort by column by "Sort ascending" or "Sort descending" on Operation menu.(Fig.1)But when we would like to sort data by multiple column, we need to use arrange function on the box there is "Code an operation...". (Fig.2)So we would like to ...
over 4 years ago in watsonx.ai 2 Planned for future release

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget in Cognos reporting

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Dynatrace for click stream analysis

To manage, monitor, and improve the use of Watson Knowledge Catalog we need to monitor who is signed on, what operations they are performing, and what artifacts or assets they are using. We need to do historical click stream analysis to monitor th...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Possibillity to boost input messages towards a intent/entity

We have an idea where it would be good to be able to boost confidence towards a special intent. Like if we have a general chat, but we know that it's more likely to be a question that concerns x, so that even if a posted question is very vauge, it...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Support synchronous detachment of a table partition

Starting with DB2 9.7(?) the detachment of table partitions is handled asynchonously. To simulate synchronous behaviour a complicated work around has to be put in place. Such a behavior could be triggered by a new DML keyword such as ASYNC.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration