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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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For tables w/ columns that are generated by default, update the internal sequence with the next value for the column

When using Qrep for DR , we have to make the target table which has generated numeric values to be generated by default. That is understood. In a DR scenario, when we fail over from the A to the B side, we have to run a script that gets the max va...

Enhance LOAD to support Load on DATABASE level

We suppose to enhance LOAD utility to allow LOAD DATABASE, intended to create the possibility of loading several or all tables of a database in one step using only one SYSREC file. Background: In the past, using segmented tablespaces, we had the o...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Manta Lineage Export in Default Mode to Alation with SSO Enabled

Currently Manta is able to export lineage to Alation in "DEFAULT" mode based on the Service Account credentials which would auto-generate Refresh Token to upload lineage, without adversely impacting the process due to session expiry as in the case...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
10 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted

Add fixed and relative values to baseline visualization

While building dashboards, it's common to have to see the baseline of a graph (lines or bars). This feature already exists in report studio (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=properties-baselines)
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Filter option for cubes

When developing TI processes, it often happens that I only need a few cubes from the list of all cubes. It would be a great feature if I could not only search for a single cube in the workbench, but also set a filter on them. This would allow you ...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Not under consideration

Preview of log/text files without sub-menu navigation in Drive Explorer in PAW

When using the Rich tier, it was easy to be able to review log files simply by opening the text file (via double click) in File Explorer. Now, we have to navigate to a preview via a menu or download the file before opening. It would be great if a ...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow artifacts for Db2 UPDATE and ACTIVATE process

IBM z/OSMF workflows are being improved to be used for Db2 installation and migration. It would be nice if we have also the artifacts for the other CLIST processes: UPDATE and ACTIVATE. The UPDATE process is what we use the most.
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration