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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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DB2LOOK schema flag adjustment

There are two useful DB2LOOK flags that are often used: "-z" for specific schemas and "-t" for specific tables. I can give a list of tables, but a SINGLE schema. There are use cases where I want to capture DDL for more than one schema (which break...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate awareness

Scenario: fact table with billions of rows ,reduce the cardinality and utilize a prepared dataset fact query table that has the aggregation. the user drops the items on the visualization and cognos decide which table to use and query . if the deta...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Fix "Import column" stage to allow to properly validate numeric values

Data validation is extremely useful for any enterprise, but this stage is not working for numeric values, although it's the 'expected behaviour'. Validation for other data types already works as expected. But, not being able to properly validate n...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

[PAfE] Application.ScreenUpdating should be restored

Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel enables Application.ScreenUpdating with RefreshBook. It causes significant performance loss with our existing macros. As we have many macros, it is unrealistic to add Application.ScreenUpdating = False in all...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Watson Conversation - loops for dialog responses

AFAIK, the expression language does not allow looping through data. I a conversation, you often have the situation that multiple entities are recognized. You can easily create a response for one recognized entity. But you may want to loop through ...
almost 8 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

DSNTEP2 OUTPUT LENGTH

I would have a DSNTEP2 version with the output lenth 4096 bytes. Unfortunately I don't have the PLI compiler. Can you compile a DSNTEP2 version with the output legth 4096 and send me the load module so I can link edit an bind it . Many many thanks...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

use "bconf" command to delete host and create or delete resource

It would be helpful for administrators. Simplify the management of HPC clusters.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Excel data source out-of-the-box connector

We have many customers who wants Excel as data source and need out-of-the-box connector for Watson Query. Remote connection is a very tedious process and even creating it for demo purpose and showcasing it to customer is painful and it results in ...
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

The option ordinality is used in XML queries but the overall performance is very slow

We use the for ordinality option in our queries but the over all performance is very poor.There is a specific XSCAN needed when ordinality is specified which takes a long time. this XSCAN produces a sequence of XML ELEMENTS. This sequence is then ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Alert on Cryptographic key near expiry

As per http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21341113 the cryptographic keys expire after 365 days (default setting), we recently fell foul of this as our keys expired and Cognos stopped working. We would like an alert when these are ne...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration