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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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Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Send IDAA internal logs to an external Syslog Server

We want to send all (administrative) logs from the IDAA to our internal Syslog Server via a secured (TLS1.3) connection. This means all activities and sign-on/offs that are currently logged internally only, shall be sent to the Syslog Server. To g...
5 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Misleading Statement in Db2 documentation on CSBs of given Fixpack

The automated implementation of updates to the most recent CSB would be significantly easier, if one could rely on CSB number only. So, it would be helpful for customer's processing of CSBs and its implementation. In Description for CSBs, e.g., he...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Submitted

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
10 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
4 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted

CP4D Catalog Search Capability to be improved.

When searching the catalog for a catalog asset, the search functionality does not provide a “narrowed-down” view of the search results. The user has to scroll through pages and pages of results to find exactly what they are looking for. The lower ...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Hide/show/enable/disable dashboard filter bar based on custom role/group or setting

We have a scenario where the dashboard author would like end users to interact with the dashboard but not allow them to change any filters in the filters bar so that the user experience is consistent. This is helpful in a scenario where if the aut...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Certificate renewal needs to be more transparent and controlled in a time convenient

Customer is using the Watson Studio IDE with Jupyter, spark. They have a team of 30-40 data scientist that work during the day and it appears an internal CP4D certificate renewal. This caused 150 pods to reboot during the day. Although this task s...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted