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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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Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage, similar to the capability of generating java code from cobol.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Limit batch connections via DB2 profile tables

We had a few instances where an errant user submitted multiple batch jobs against a DB2 subsystem and caused DB2 to reach IDBACK limit. This affected other users trying to submit batch jobs for an extended period of time. Making use of DB2 profile...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow find and replace for fields in Modeler streams

This request is to allow find and replace to change all occurrences of a field name in whatever node in may be located. While a filter node can be used to rename a field if the field name changes in an external data source, customers sometimes wan...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Provide support for OAuth 2.0 authentication

In order to support secure integration with OpenPages APIs, please provide support for OAuth 2.0 authentication, which is an industry standard authentication protocol.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

Make DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING=ON the default

DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING is of great benefit for performance and scalability since it was introduced in v8. It's now the default in pureScale and BLU environments, so why can't we make it the default all around?
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW Automatic maintenance window setting

Current automatic maintenance does not allow to have multiple offline or online maintenance windows, only one of each. For example, we have automatic online maintenance window for 4 hours at night daily but need to have another definition for 24 h...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - For data server connections and uploaded files, turn off/on cleansing of table and column labels

This is how it works today: For data server connections and uploaded files, the table and column labels are cleaned up in English and some other languages in the following way: For single files, the file extension, such as .xls or .csv, is remove...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Informix ER: Increase maximum allowed replicates

Our customer uses Enterprise Replication with Informix Server, spanning 530 databases, within 60 instances. We use 11.70 GE. We have hit the maximum limitation of 32746 replicates in the ER domain and it's not enough. We even had to decrease count...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow auto-save to be turned on/off not only at pipeline level, but also at project level

Many of our users tend to open multiple tabs when editing pipelines and we are concerned that they may be inadvertently overwriting themselves. We'd like the ability to disable auto-save at the project level and not just within a single pipeline.
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Not under consideration