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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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Stop and start Query Engine via the interface

To reduce cost and energy consumption, it will be great to stop and start manually the query engines via the interface, or the shutdown automatically after x minutes of inactivity, and wake up on request (similar to wake on lan). We could have mul...
12 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

Ability to hide metadata that is not applicable to the component

You want to have the ability to hide metadata that is not applicable to the component being edited: term, rule. You only want to see what is applicable to the subject to avoid typing errors. Seeing metadata that is not applicable to a subject gene...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

zLinux Support for IIDR VSAM Remote

Global Payments requests to have an S390 ZLinux Build for IIDR VSAM. Currently DB2z has zLinux support, but Global Payments also has IMS and VSAM, and would like to include both IMS and VSAM support. This includes the windows management console to...
6 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

zLinux Support for IIDR IMS Remote

Global Payments requests to have an S390 ZLinux Build for IIDR IMS. Currently DB2z has zLinux support, but Global Payments also has IMS and VSAM, and would like to include both IMS and VSAM support. This includes the windows management console to ...
6 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

support LOB in IBM DB2 Analytics Analyzer for z/OS - IDAA

Rabobank had used his clobs in a varchar. When the inline CLob became available they converted their varchar to inline LOB. Now with the IDAA available they should move back to the varchar. Instead of IDAA supporting the LOBs.They want the IDAA su...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

CDC directly support PostgreSQL partition table

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=configure-replicating-data-in-partitioned-tables CDC can not directly support PostgreSQL partition table now,This is very inconvenient,Can we change it to just mapping the parent table?
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Please Add Red Hat 9 as the support OS for IBM DataStage 11.7 or the next available version of DataStage

We are currently on DataStage 11.7.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.9 which will be out of support soon. We need to migrate our DataStage installation for Red Hat version 9. We need DataStage 11.7 to support Red Hat 9.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release

Increase collection count limit within each project in WD on prem

For our customer, they want to use project as tenant level or use project to store more different type of data. So there will be more than 5 collections needed for each project. We need a way to customize collection count limit within each project...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Enhance message 00F30034 with plan name

Enhancement of message 00F30034 with plan name in question. The message text today is"The authorization ID associated with this connection is not authorized to use the specified plan name or the specified plan name does not exist." Please add a va...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Dimension Properties

The index of members in a dimension is not shown. Please add!
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release