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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Create a new BiF to do a real TIMESTAMPDIFF

The current scalar function TIMESTAMPDIFF is great if the difference is not over one month, then it starts guessing at how many days are involved. If you want to know the number of seconds between two timestamps it gives variously bad degrees of e...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Documentation update regarding DataStage Roles and Capabilities

Every DataStage team in the world needs a quick reference to the DataStage roles/permissions/capabilities which is easily understandable and comprehensive at a glance. There isn't one in the manual, it's just a bunch of overly-complicated text. So...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow Default Settings on a Workbook View to be defined as a System Setting

The New Experience interface (Release 78) of Planning Analytics allows the Overview section to be configured to display Hierarchy Names, Iconography, Context Information and Section Headers. By default only Iconography is set to display. Users fin...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Use package collection other than NULLID for CLP and Db2 Utilities

Db2/zOS colleagues want to get rid of lock issues with rebind of packages in schema NULLID, thus the decided to have Db2/zOS release specific package collections to provide actual and rebound packages for every Db2 release to the distributed (Db2/...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Azure Saas support for watsonx.data

A lot of customers are using Microsoft Azure and they would like to be able to consume watsonx.data as true Saas on such platform
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

Add support for custom URLs to Cognos Analytics dashboards including multilingual and accessibility parameters

We wish to have full support for custom URLs with all optional parameters extended to include Cognos Analytics dashboards. This should include support for multilingual parameters contentLocale and productLocale, as well as accessibility features p...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Use of User Friendly Terms for Metrics on the Governance Console

Certain metrics are tracked, some have names that are pretty intuitive as to what they measure, such as ROUGE. Others are industry technical jargon like SARI that do not indicate much to a lay or non technical person looking at the metric. This pr...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Orchestration Pipeline to be compatible with OpenShift Pipeline

The client has deployed cluster-wide OpenShift Pipeline for any automation/configuration work that could be used. This in turn has failed Orchestration Pipeline to successfully deploy its jobs as they fail due to using OpenShift Pipeline service a...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Comprehensive API Usage Reporting for Reference Data

Problem Statement:Currently, there is no dedicated reporting mechanism for API usage related to Reference Data in IKC-RDM, hindering visibility into API performance and usage patterns. Proposed Solution:Implement a comprehensive A
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted