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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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Data flow Designer Allows only changed or new jobs to be published to git repository

Currently Data flow designer allows same version of job to be published to git multiple times which results redundant versions in git repository. DFD should only allow git publish if a job is changed or it's a new job
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Performance Enhancements to the DataStage Siebel BCPX Component

System: DataStage Siebel BCPX Component Actor: Users requiring vastly improved performance in retrieving data from Siebel tables. DataStage will be used to extract data, components and relationships using the DataStage Siebel BCPX Component. Descr...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Having counter the number of query failbacks

If a query failbacks to Db2 for z/OS, users would like count the number of failbacks and possibly the SQL Text itself. Today, SQL Query Monitors running for Db2 for z/OS can not differentiate the executed SQL's origin. For instance (1) SQL can be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Candlestick Chart Visualization

Provide a visualization for candlestick chart to show the max min and average of a certain metric across a selected dimensionality. Also provide the ability to sort a RAVE2 visualization by a metric that isn't part of the output
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - Upload Group Membership

Within PAW, there is the ability to upload users via a CSV file and upload groups via a CSV file. However, assigning users to PAW groups is a manual exercise. Requesting the ability to upload group membership (i.e. mapping of which users belong to...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

CTAS locks syscat.tables

Reproduce Scenario and found to be a expected behavior while CTAS locks syscat.tables session 1 > create table Table1 as (select * from Table_2 ) with data; session 2, query tool > select * from syscat.tables; --> lock waiting
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Bullet Charts not supported in PAw

Issue: A manipulated Excel chart, such as a bullet chart, does not translate into PAW. The secondary data sets (in this case Actual & Target) are deleted in PAW. Likely another “emulator” issue. Bullet charts are used in the dashboard repo...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Provide an easy way to de-allocate the underlying Linear dataset when needed without dropping and recreating table spaces and index spaces.

Component: DDL? Data Definition Language? There are cases when a table has change its usage and may remain empty for a very long time or not use anymore but still required to be defined in Db2. In this case, it would be good to have a better way o...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expand the scope of the RENAME DDL.

Moving forward with self-provisioning for developers, adherence to the company's naming standards and rules may be a necessity. The RENAME command should apply to table spaces, table schema, table, index, triggers, views, constraints, etc. This wa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration