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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.

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Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

AREO Status via select

Some ddl Changes are in table SYSPENDINGDDL Some ddl Changes are not there: for example alter table add column can only be see via -dis db() sp() adv It would be better to have the same bahavior for all ddl changes with AREO* Status.Maybe it could...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Redesign of cleanup on remote cursor load of LOB data

Customer migrated from DB2 9.1 on Solaris to DB2 9.7 onLinux. As restore is not supported between different endianarchitecture, load by remote cursor was used for datamovement. There was one single table storing about 400 GB ofLOB data (BLOB), tot...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Progress Vizualization for Running a TI Process using PAW Button

Users are not informed/aware on the progress of running TI Process via PAW button. When the TI process runtime is taking more than 5 mins, PAW shows no sign of activity, users think that either the TI is done or the page hang.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

support bind REOPT option with QUERYACCELERATION option

Support bind REOPT option with QUERYACCELERATION option.Today the situation is describe in the pmr:"Once it's decided not offloading at bind time, REOPT(ALWAYS) won't change the offloading decision."
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Restore IIS gateway dispatcher redundancy functionality to behave like previous cognos versions

In cognos 11 the iis gateway requires the use of url rewrites to create a reverse proxy to work. This hard codes a single dispatcher per IIS gateway. The workaround suggested by support would require a dedicated IIS instance per dispatcher and loa...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide for language-specific models across geos (specifically granite-8b-japanese to non-Tokyo regions)

While it is critical to offer language-specific text generation models close to the regions we anticipate will use these the most, for global companies it is important to offer text generation capabilities across languages to multiple geos. For ex...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Add value labels to heat map viz

this ability to show value labels in the map is great, and being able to have the user pick whether they want to show the value, item, or value and item is very user friendly and valuable. Is there a way to make this available for other visualizat...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Expand energy stats to cover non-exclusive jobs

As part of working towards our net zero we would like to request more general energy measurement for non-exclusive jobs. We believe this would benefit all LSF users, particularly those working in the UK research environment where there is an incre...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Future consideration