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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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Display IAG2 on object level

Sometimes IAG2 will be disabled, in some situations this is clear and ok, in some situations it is strange and not expected. To implement reliable automation we need e.g. an enhancement to DISPLAY DATABASE SPACENAM with IAG, which shows which inse...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Avoid potential data loss in time intervals containing PIT ranges

If you want to create REDO SQL for a time interval, and there is a PIT range somewhere in this interval, Log Analysis Tool (LAT) will print this informational message ""ALAA156I: LOG RECS BYPASSED DUE TO PIT RECOVERY". The job will end with "RC=00...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create custom images for Spark Notebooks

Desjardins has a data scientist team and they would like to customize Spark images for various data scientist. Similar to what is documented here, but with Spark https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=environments-building-cust...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 3 Future consideration

REST API endpoint for performance optimized writeback with arrow format

With more and more TM1 implementations happening in the cloud, we see more data loads using REST API / TM1py instead of Turbo Integrator. When using TM1py or the REST API, the best performance you can accomplish right now is to be on par with Turb...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Help for complex utilities

For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Business rules on notifications

Need the capability to be able to apply business rules on notifications using different time zones, days of a week and dates. Examples - User action triggered notifications should be sent between Monday to Friday 9AM-5PM EST. User action triggered...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 5 Future consideration

Request to enable the creation of lineage with Watson Query (Data Virtualization)

In the current version of IKC (4.8.1), there is no capability to create lineage using Watson Query. After consulting with the IBM Customer Engineering (CE) team working on the UMAG POC, it appears that this functionality is not available. Enhancem...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

STMM Monitoring

With the memory statistics similar to the ‘db2pd -dbptnmem’ output within the STMM logs, it would be possible to get memory usage report over time from Db2 perspective without any permanent monitoring tool (as long as STMM is used/active). It woul...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Cognos SMTP - OAUTH2.0

Microsoft is deprecating basic authentication mid this year for exchange communications. We will need to come up with OAUTH2.0 setup for SMTP notifications
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration