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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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Replacement of Rest API calls for XMETA information with database connectors for much much faster retrieval

Hello, My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach....
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Option to have nested project structure and restrict the number of resources consumed at the root project level and sub project levels

Based on our experience, in a Corporate environment, there would be multiple business use cases running on a single Cloud Pak environment which is administered by a different admin team. Considering underlying resources could be limited and there ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Ability to externalize Statistics to RTS after Runstats

In seldom cases (~1%) Online Reorgs abend because the TOTALROWS column in the SYSTABLESPACESTATS are wrong. Then we do Runstats and update the RTS. The question is, why the number of rows is not externalized after doing a RUNSTATS. The value after...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Kerberos / SSL conflict

When Kerberos is enabled for users it blocks the usage of SSL for users that have local authentication. This is a bug that should be fixed but IBM persists this is working as designed so placing this here as an enhancement request. Enabling kerber...
about 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 2 Future consideration

Data traffic encryption

When kerberos authentication is enabled there is no way to have data traffic encrypted. Despite the fact that kerberos has that functionality IBM isn't taking advantage of it. Data traffic encryption is a security standard for years so this should...
about 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Future consideration

To include unsupervised (clustering) models to Watson Openscale/ Trust

To include unsupervised (clustering) models to Watson Openscale/ Trust
over 1 year ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

IBM Product Master (MDM CE) database documentation

The support team asked us to raise and Idea about the need for database documentation in the use of Product Master. We asked for such documentation (see PMR TS011634965 : https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/5003p00002lobUXAAY) and it was not available. ...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Full support for Gitlab in PA/PAW

At the moment you can only connect to Gitlab from PA/PAW using SSH. However, it should be possible to connect to Gitlab using Username and Password or Access Token.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add REORG LONGLOBDATA for columnar tables

Currently we can create columnar tables with CLOB/LOB columns in it. What we can't do is reclaim the allocated diskspace of the CLOB/LOB columns (LOB_OBJECT_P_SIZE) in columnar tables To get an idea about how many diskspace is allocated: db2 "...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

easy-to-use NPS Client application like as Aginity Workbench

It would be helpful to provide customers with easy-to-use NPS Client application like as Aginity Workbench, which was withdraw. This application should have the following features: Generating DDL scripts for database objects View / edit comments f...
almost 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration