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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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Enable classic reorg with "allow write access"

Many customers want to REORG their tables quickly and efficiently. The classic REORG is by far the fastest option but puts the table in read only mode. Inplace reorg allows write access but is much slower and not suitable for tables that have a hi...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration

Personalize PAW landing page after login

We would like the ability for administrator to easily define different PAW workbook for different users to land after login to PAW.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

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

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Request to enable the creation of lineage with Watson Query

In the current version of IKC (4.8.1), there is no capability to create lineage using Watson Query. After consulting with the IBM Customer Engineering (CE) team working on the UMAG POC, it appears that this functionality is not available. Enhancem...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Request to leverage the connection to Denodo to automatically populate custom attributes for Information Governance Mapping in IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges:We currently manage around 10-15 custom attributes manually in IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC). However, the data for these attributes resides in Denodo, leading to inefficiencies and the potential for errors during man...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Request for the ability to create custom event-based workflows, specifically triggered by a date field, within IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges: The default workflow templates lack the flexibility to include nested conditions, making it challenging to automate complex processes effectively. Enhancement Request: We propose the addition of event-based workflow creation th...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Please provide a bresources option where we can find the default reservation unit per defined resource: job, task, host

Currently, it's not strait forward for a user to be able to see what the default reservation units are for things like memory, swap, license resources, etc. It would be nice if there were a bresources option to show the default allocation unit's f...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Please Log the Pre and Post Exec Runtimes in MBD and through Events

The Pre-exec start event is logged, but there is no event for the post exec. So, it's almost impossible for us to track the runtimes of post exec without adding additional layers to our external reporting. We would prefer these metrics to be track...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Spark3.5.1 with Java 11 support enabled

There are a lot of improvements noted in Spark version 3.5.1 when compared to 3.3.1. Immediate driver for this version of Spark is the support for a defensive mechanism against SQL injections. There are other beneficial features: Spark connect, En...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted