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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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Add custom relationship towards reference data value - now there is only custom relationship towards reference data

I want to create a custom relationship from category to reference data value. At the moment that is not possible. I can create a relationship towards the whole reference data set, but not the individual values. For a term it is possible to create ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

HA functionality for Datastage Cartridge

Background •In general, the best practice to ensure high availability for OpenShift cluster is to spread the masters and workers across three AZ’s in a cloud. But for DataStage, it only makes sense if the platform allows multiple conductors spread...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Functions to transform DB2 XML to JSON data and the other way around

if you have a table with a XML column it will be nice to be able to export the xml part of the data in a JSON format it will also be nice to be able to update the XML data with input in JSON format.
3 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Under review

simplified code path for RI checking

We had an interesting discussion with the development team about this. As I already mentioned, the RI code path is quite different than the R-scan which may use one or more predicates to evaluate the qualifying rows. The main module that is drivin...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Shutdown gracefully of IKC

Background: - Customer needs to restart the CP4D cluster to do maintenance operations as explained in : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CPDIDEAS-I-2164 - The only service left with the "shutdown" feature for my customer is IKC. - Also, it will help us...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 SP3

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 support pack 3 needed. As the documentation for Manta currently states that the latest version of BO supported is 4.3 SP 1 & 2. Lockheed requires SP 3 to be supported in order to sustain compatib...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Improvement on TMI Scanners

This is the feedback from SLF regarding TMI scanners -> Create a DB2 instance template for Watsonx Code Assistant. When the user is provisioning the DB2 instance, they can select the template instead of creating a vanilla Db2 instance. This tem...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Provide an automated CodeEngine Frontend or something similar to interact with our Watsonx.AI Apps

This is a common headache shared by many IBMers. Our AI/ML models need a frontend, this frontend use to be a CodeEngine solution. The problem we have is that we are not that familiar with CodeEngine, so its not rare to spend a lot of time creating...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Folder in watson studio for DataStage files

For InfoSphere DataStage user who transition to NextGen DataStage, they find it very messy if they cannot organize DataStage related files in folder.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Host name Control in datastore to prevent reverse DNS lookups

Using Access Server, we have datastores that connect via IP and every time it try’s connect it does a DNS reverse lookup and times out. The datastore accepts IP and hostname, we need a way to stop the DNS reverse lookup for the connection.
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review