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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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Add Official Support for Red Panda / Kafka for CDC Replication

Please review the Red Panda distribution for Kafka for approval. We have been assured that Red Panda follows the Apache Kafka protocol used by CDC Replication. We would like to have Red Panda added to the supported distributions for Kafka. Thank you.
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Allow Better Aggregation Stage options such as the same column with multiple aggs or count option within the calculation option.

We have a need to do multiple aggregations on the same column for a grouping. 1. Sum it, 2. Count rows. You cannot use the same column twice, and count is not even an option within the calculation section, it is a separate option and exclusive.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

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...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Jump to Sub-Action and close current Action / Follow on Actions for End of Conversation

The current End of a Conversation flow is robotic and does not give the end user a satisfactory experience at the end of their journey. The flow needs to be customizable so that it is consistent, and can gather feedback, start another journey, or ...
10 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Possibility to list / filter / Sort Variables by variable type

In the list of variables, you can sort and search by many attributes, but not by type. Our team would like this added as it would accelerate browsing through our hundreds of variables.
10 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Nested Folder Structures

Our Team of Content Authors, typically organise their work / responsibilities in folders. Having a nested / hierarchical folder, would all creators to also group their own work into logical blocs.
10 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

job resource usage correction

My developers always submit distributed jobs to the cluster, when their jobs ends with OOM error in one of the nodes, bjobs or bacct commands find that the job's memory usage is incorrect. For example , in server's '/var/log/message' we can see th...
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Submitted

Control loadbalancing type of db2u-c service in Kubernetes

DB2 only offers nodePort for external exposure. However it would be natural to be able to control the loadbalcing type (i.e. ClusterIP by default, but allow for LoadBalancer). Additionally it would be favourable to place annotations on the service...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted