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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Allow parallel offline table reorg of range partitioned tables with non partitioned indexes (NPI)

Offline (classic) table reorgs might still be necessary in certain scenarios and can run for a very long time for huge tables (>24h). It is very hard to find a suitable window in a 24x7 System. Offline table reorgs - which have at least one non...
12 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Ability to sort the calculations list based on the column headings

Currently admins are not able to sort / filter the list of calculations that have been configured. The behaviour required is the same as sorting a list of workflows
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Reference to the BSDS for example the full image copies of the CATALOG and DIRECTORY DB2 tablespaces which are not in SYSCOPY

There are several (4 in DB2 v12) catalog and directory tablespaces for which the full image copies are not referenced in the SYSCOPY.Thus, during a DB2 cat/dir recovery (recovery exercise or other...) these FICs are searched directly in the DB2 lo...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to disable or customize stemming

Watson Discovery uses stemming to identify valid matches. Based on our experience it appears that stemming is applied in both Natural Language Queries and also Discovery Language Queries. It seems to also enforced in phrase searching. This is usef...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 13 Not under consideration

Thread filter in the server log

When watching the live log it is often necessary to focus on a single thread. Currently the search function helps with finding the lines related to a thread but a better solution would be to have a filter next to the already existing filter for Le...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Bar charts conditional formatting in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)

Despite the fact that over time more formatting options for visualizations in PA Workspace have become available, there is still no option to set conditional formatting for bar charts in a way that allows the color to depend on the value. Our user...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Exploration filtering based on table values in IBM PA Workspace (PAW)

Currently, in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), there's no option to filter the exploration based on the string values present in the table. Our users expect it to be available alongside the Sorting function, which works just fine. Please ch...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

OOTB Search is triggered second time on returning to grid view from single edit View

While using OOTB search in day-to-day product enrichment process, users are facing difficulty as search is being triggered multiple times by Product. Below is the use case which users will be performing in Production on daily basis. In Production ...
about 1 month ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Adding primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns to IBM Knowledge Catalog Relationship Explorer

IBM Knowledge Catalog Relationship Explorer does not display the primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns currently even thought the primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns can be identified by Metada...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review