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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Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

Enhance Report Reference and Layout Component Reference

Both the Layout Component Reference and the Report Reference functionality in reports have limitations that prevent report authors from leveraging previously developed content. I would like to see these enhanced so that authors do not need to rede...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

DB2 online backup using Tivoli Storage Manager causes DB2 hang

Fix the online back freezing issue as described at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21979921
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Confirm username+password on workflow step

Hi, for compliance reasons, we need the ability to configure certain workflow steps to prompt a user to re-enter their username and password. For example, we have a workflow with an Edit step followed by an Approval step. The Edit step has a "Subm...
6 months ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Turbo Integrator Variables

Have PAW interface show the file path of the source file. Also, be able to add a formula to variables added and evaluate the value (example: If(a=b,1, If(a=c,2,3));
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Migration assistant from ADS/IDMS to Cobol or Java

My client is very interested in watsonx Code Assistant for Z as a modernization tool to help them incrementally transform their ADS code into Cobol or Java within z/OS
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics For Excel - Self Updateable

The pace at which PAX is updated (roughly once a month) makes it really hard for any large organization to keep it updated. Big organization do not grant users the ability to install software directly and we can't be constantly building scripts fo...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Removing defunct Delta Backup images after automatic database backup image removal

We have automated backup options enabled (num_db_backups and rec_his_retentn both set). Our backup schedule takes a full backup on Sunday and a Delta every other day of the week. When a full backup image qualifies for removal, with reference to th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Document about the each pods for services.

Many pods will run in CPD nodes after installing several services. Documents about the pods detail will be helpful.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

Data masking for ingested WDS documents

We have a client request to provide capability to mask sensitive data from ingested documents. This is to serve 2 purposes; i) general company wide data privacy requirements, ii) masking sensitive data from developers If a function was available t...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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