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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

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

Allow us to use the profile tables to set the ACCUMACC zparm more granular

At the present time we have ACCUMACC set to 20. We have had to set this to 1 for problem determination purposes. In our active system it causes issues with our SMF jobs when we have done this for even a short time. We would like the ability to use...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Enhance Scatter Plot in PAW

This is a request to enhance the scatter plot visualization in PAW. As for now it is possible to have different colours in the plot dependent on a dimension. However, it is not possible to make the icons dependent on another dimension. As a user I...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

Command 'db2pd -reorgs index' does not show info about the progress of reorg index with 'cleanup all' or 'reclaim extents'

There is a limitation to show info with db2pd -reorgs index for command like reorg indexes all for table ... allow write access cleanup all reclaim extents. It is possibile to monitor progress of reorg offline and online but not for the above case...
10 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Under review

Enable reading NUMBER(1) columns in New Oracle CDC stage as INTEGER rather than BYTE

There is an existing CI in the old system for this; adding it to the Ideas portal for customer visibility. StreamSets documentation explains that we convert Oracle's Number type to SDC data types based on precision and scale, converting NUMBER fie...
19 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Proper reaction on browser events in RDM HUB

The customer has reported malfunctioning during management of referential data in IBM RDM HUB.
19 days ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

WA new experience and old experience is confusing for client

Some client has many assistants, some in old experience, some in new experience. Need a unified view to better view how many assistants.
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Inline code complete and cursor shortcut to generate code directly where my cursor is

I want to begin to type code manually, and have the assistant present an autocompletion based on what it thinks I am trying to do. Let me either ignore it or use it. When I want to use natural language to generate code, let me keep focus in the ed...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Under review

Improve ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION

Currently ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION only allows the ENDING value to be a constant, minvalue, or maxvalue. I would suggest adding the ability to generate DATES or TIMESTAMPS so that additional programming is not necessary to generate the ALTER s...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review