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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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Request Ranger Support for SPSS

Our company uses hive tables to validate data in hadoop. We use an application called Ranger to control authorization to hdfs and hive. Since we use Ranger the actual hdfs file permissions and hive access controls are not used by us. Currently it ...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

Admin rights to new WKS instance

When I create a new subscription to WKS, it does not automatically assign any rights to the creator. WKS tool assigns admin rights to the first person using it and now others cannot even find who has admin rights. This makes it hard for us to admi...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

DFD Icons

We need that read-only dfd (Datastage Flow Designer) users are not able to click the icons and links corresponding to the operations they cannot perform. For example, We would like that read-only user not to be able to click on the job creation link.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Externalize the IFI abend count

We would like a method to externalize the IFI abend count so we can be proactive about identifying IFI abends and prevent IFI and the monitor trace being disabled. Alternatively there could be a msg externalized when the count gets to various thre...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Proper Error notifications for CDC capture and apply SQLCODE

We recently had issue where CDC plan on Zos Capture was bound to a wrong collection and resulted in one capture referencing the metadata of another capture. Case TS008690724. when this happened a +100 sqlcode was shown in the capture log but there...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

QMF EE for websphere Edit menu to have copy, paste, replace feature

QMF EE for websphere when editing a query, edit menu is grayed out which lets copy, paste, find and replace text within a query. Currently, the workaround is use keyboard short cuts.
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User Account details in Activity Log for Calculation Engine Functions

When a data field is updated via the calculation engine, a generic system account appears in the Activity log. It would be more useful for the user account of the user whose action triggers the calculation engine update to appear in the Activity L...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Restart of redirected recover

It should be possible to restart redirected recover in the same manner as you can restart the standard recover utility. When running redirected recover of a large group of tables, it is a waste of time to have to restart if an error is encountered...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Export should have nocoldel or coldelx20

Db2 should allow an export without characters for columns not characters, or space as column delimiter. Something like: export to myfile.csv of del modified by nochardel nocoldel select * from mytable There is something to change the column de...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add similar feature to DB2 - Oracle Database, Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature

Oracle Database has Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature to minimize/eliminate downtime through schema versioning. It would be very useful for DB2 to have a similar feature to allow adding or modifying new or existing data structures without d...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration