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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Avoid impact from query sort usage on more important online transactions workload

Nowadays usage of Sortworks by a single thread is limited by MAXTEMPS or the size of the overall available sortworks if MAXTEMPS is zero. Most time MAXTEMPS works well to protect our regular business against single queries with a lot of sort amoun...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Mark a row as "archived" so it will not show up in regular SELECT (or other SQL) operations

Oracle style Data invisibility (archiving) with In Database Archival. See this article ==> http://www.toadworld.com/platforms/oracle/w/wiki/11420.oracle-12c-data-invisibility-archiving-with-in-database-archival The idea is to mark a row as arch...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 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 ...
over 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Ability to do semantic search

Currently first level search in WDS is based on term overlap which can be improved with relevancy training. The term overlap can be improved with query expansion. Now for a query on "car", customer also wants to retrieve documents on "Vehicle", "M...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

API(or Utility) to display to native DLL and jdbc driver version of DB2 z/OS

Hi IBM,Can IBM provide Utility or API to determine the native DLL and jdbc version of JDBC drivers? websphere application server z/OS is able to throw error in case of any mismatch between native DLL and jdbc driver versions?. why can't this can b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 7 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...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add catalog information about how a compression dictionary was created (INSERT, LOAD, REORG)

Db2 is able to create a compression dictionary by INSERT, LOAD and REORG. If INSERT and LOAD are responsible, than the first x rows were not compressed (Db2 reads them to build a proper dictionary). If REORG is responsible for creating a compressi...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add value to comments from PAfE reports

When adding comments to a cell from a PAW view the current cell value is always saved with the comment, for some reason this is not the case when adding a comment to the same cell from a PAfE report published to PAW, in this case the Value is alwa...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Have an option to search in a location, a subdirectory

Sometimes there are too many results for the search engine. It will be interesting to limit the search to a subdirectory.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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