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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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Restricted access at a database level quiesce to prevent database activation in order to perform exclusive access operations like offline backup/restore in a multi database instance.

In a multi database system especially when running applications on platforms like OpenShift or even application servers like WAS where applications reconnect very fast, it becomes very hard or even impossible to get exclusive access to a single da...
1 day ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Submitted

Allow option for or default option to turn "autocomplete" flag to off for password authentication in regards to the Jupyter notebooks

It is a low priority security vulnerability for web servers to allow password auto-completion. In most apps, this is a pretty simple fix, to configure the option to allow "autocomplete" to set to off. When I opened a ticket with IBM, their was not...
1 day ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Cube view should show data in PAW if there is no dimension in Row or Column

In a crosstab structure of cube view in PAW if we don’t put at least one dimension in both Rows and Columns the view does not show the data. This does not happen in TM1 Web. This is a very basic functionality of TM1 to play around with dimensions ...
about 3 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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 8 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…) TS01740...
5 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Submitted

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
6 days ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted

Unrestricted context window for Mistral Large and Llama Models for watsonx.ai Software/ on-prem

One of the differentiators of Mistral large is its large context window. In watsonx however, we restrict this context window for Mistral and Llama models because of performance reasons, see here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/w-and-w/2.0.x?t...
about 23 hours ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

The ability to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons

This is a requirement to have the ability to to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons. For example - Suppose I want to place a run as background button on the HTML output page so that users dont have to go to report path and do ru...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Enhance the "Schema filter" field functionality for IBM Cloud Database for MongoDB.

It would be beneficial if this field could display a list of available schemas, as currently, a connection cannot be created without populating the "Schema filter" field. Often, users may not know the exact schema name in advance, so it would be i...
1 day ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Submitted