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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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PAW Reports and Analysis Tab Dropdown

A developer is looking to create PAW Reports and limit the number of tabs displayed across the screen, or separately they are looking to group like-tabs into a single tab. So, for example, they create KPI as the tab name, and create Metric 1, Metr...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Admin rights to new WKS instance

When I create a new subscription to WKS, it does not automatically assign any rights to the creator. WKS tool assigns admin rights to the first person using it and now others cannot even find who has admin rights. This makes it hard for us to admi...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add similar feature to DB2 - Oracle Database, Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature

Oracle Database has Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature to minimize/eliminate downtime through schema versioning. It would be very useful for DB2 to have a similar feature to allow adding or modifying new or existing data structures without d...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage

Using Datastage 11.5.0.1 "File Connector Stage", We ask to implement the mapping from an input field defined as Decimal (17,2) to a target avro field defined as "type":["bytes","null"],"logicalType":"decimal","precision":"17","scale":"2" into the ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need to improve quick scan to support SAP HANA with native connection type.

The quick scan in the CP4D 4.0.6 is supporting SAP HANA only with generic JDBC connection type. But it does not include 'the other objects' like aliases, synonyms and clolum views etc which are supported by SAP HANA native connection type. So the ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Export should have nocoldel or coldelx20

Db2 should allow an export without characters for columns not characters, or space as column delimiter. Something like: export to myfile.csv of del modified by nochardel nocoldel select * from mytable There is something to change the column de...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Using Fuzzy matches for Intent detection

Fuzzy matching is good at picking up single or plural versions of the same word in our Entities. However, we noticed that if the user request has the exact match with the entity, the correct intent, which uses this entity, is identified with the h...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Allow AUTHID translation for a trusted connection with a trusted context from DB2 z/OS to a remote DB2 LUW subsystem

A DBA for client that I support is requesting the ability to allow AUTHID translation for a trusted connection with a trusted context from DB2 z/OS to a remote DB2 LUW subsystem when SECURITY_OUT=P and USERNAMES=S IN SYSTEM.IPNAMES table and TYPE=...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Alpha sorting on username for PAW security

PAW security usenames can not be sorted alphabetically. This makes administration more difficult. Creating an alphabetical sort option would make finding users and administering security easier
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Storing of enriched/additional information outside of the standard data model

in DNB we have to save a lot of information outside of the out of the box FTM Data Model. The main strategies available out of the box are: - use object values/id references --> this leads to a quick proliferation in key value objects which imp...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration