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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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Enhance email notifications for job completions by providing more detailed information and direct links to results.

Currently, users receive email notifications upon the completion of MDE or DQ rule jobs, but these notifications lack essential details and only include a link to the job log. To improve the user experience and facilitate quicker access to results...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

db2u-operator should be able to restore a DB to a point in time

Currently db2u restores a database and rollforwards it to end of logs per default. The point in time restore option is an essential feature in every modern DB, and in OpenShift-environments even more so since logging in into the db2-container shou...
3 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Under review

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

Custom steps in remediation workflows

Possibility of including refinery jobs, datastage jobs, remote API (eg: create a Jira ticket..), ... or other integrations in one of the steps of the remediation flow.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Support Text Formatting in Questionnaire Templates

We have a requirement to make some part of text in Questionnaire Template Introduction as bold and to change color of the text. But I couldn't do it, since rich text format is not supported.
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Under review

Detect connection status to data source

On several occasions the following scenario has occurred:Lost connection at the origin, however, the subscription remains in the "Mirroring continuous" state, but it is not actually replicating anything, since when validating at the database level...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Index tables in FAP database for better performance of an IP

We tested the time taken for an IP in the PRD environment. In SQL we saw an extreme cost in memory for select queries that the process does in table nrtr_companyrelation We noticed, that this table is not indexed. The whole IP took 2,5h, of which ...
23 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack Delta Extract Stage.This is necessary to support the delta-extraction mode of CDS Views for extraction of data from SAP System for tables that does not support delta extraction via ODP - SAP or...
24 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review