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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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Change the "Pending Backup State" to NO when backup is done to /dev/null

There can be situations where customer wants to switch from circular logging to Archival logging and vice versa. Currently, when a switch from Circular Logging to Archive Logging is requested, Db2 sets the database state in "Backup Pending" state ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 7 Functionality already exists

Find query subjects/items

System: Cognos Analytics 11.0.x In Dashboarding there is a Find bar allowing the user to search for a specific keyword in query subjects (tables) and query items (columns) in a data module. This feature should be included in Reporting, allowing th...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Excel file format should be supported as source data in the ETL project.

Excel file format should be supported as source data in the ETL project.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

Enhance DSNACCOX

Based on the recommendations from the recent Best Practices webcast, I believe that DSNACCOX should be enhanced to reflect these recommendations. Rules to trigger reorgs For indexes: Pseudo-deletedentries: REORGPSEUDODELETES/TOTALENTRIES > 5% I...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Symphony jobs log retrieval enhanced mechanism

Whereas Symphony provides an easy way to retrieve its own cluster logs through its System Logs web interface, the same is not true for user jobs submitted to the cluster. Today, a given job’s log is generated and stored on the filesystem. A user m...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to create and update the range/ drop values for custom attributes created in UI via API

We need the ability to create and update the range/ drop values for custom attributes created in UI via API. We anticipate to update values very frequently doing manually through UI is not efficient.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Clone a database

I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Multi-engine management on watsonx.data SaaS

For resiliency and tenancy purposes, there is a need to deploy multiple engines (and types) to a single watsonx.data instance. This is something that can be configured and deployed on CP4D, however the SaaS version of watsonx.data doesn't seem to ...
7 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Functionality already exists

Granularity for backup

Ideal example of it is 'staging database', which may not be worth backing up. Backing up unnecessary databases is a toll on resources (Network bandwidth, CPU, storage). Having choice of which databases user can backup and at what time may help our...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Functionality already exists

Databricks connector

Adding a Databricks connector to DataStage could bring several benefits. Here are a few reasons why it could be a good idea: Enhanced Data Integration: A Databricks connector would allow seamless integration between DataStage and Databricks, enabl...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists