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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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REBIND allocated plan

Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration
134 VOTE

export data from tables out of a backup image

Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

Ability to execute Pacemaker status and version commands as a non-root use

In TSA the following commands can be executed as a non-root user / db2 instance to check the status , get the version , enable disable cluster: lsrpdomain lsrpnode lssam samversion db2haicu -disable Pacemaker commands require root access to execut...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0

CSV generation options per report/run

Currently csv settings like encoding, terminator, delimiter, qualifier, mimetype and trimspaces are set at the system level for all report executions. Changes affect all users in the specific environment. Our users have different requirements for ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 4 Planned for future release
141 VOTE

Same selected item data in value prompt is sent to the client browser over and over while using drill-through

Same selected item data in Value prompt is sent to client browser over and over while using drill through. When lots of items are selected in Value prompt, this issue causes huge amount of data receiving. Those same selected item data shouldn't be...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Date and User selector type Question in Questionnaire

It would be better to have the Date and User single and multi-select as question type in Questionnaire
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Import JSON schema definition

We want to integrate files in JSON format, the JSON schema file is available. We use the Hierarchical stage. But when we want to import this definition into the libraries (datastage componant / schema library / add resource) the file is treated as...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Scripting stages to handle Date objects without converting to Datetime

Right now, scripting stages in Data Collector automatically convert Date fields to Datetime as it passes through the pipeline. For example, the Jython Evaluator stage will take Date objects and map it to the java.util.Date class, adding a time com...
22 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review