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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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Annotation of semantic meaning of text within tables utilizing headers for context

Annotation of semantic meaning of text within tables utilizing headers for context
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Database activation should carry separate security authority

ACTIVATE DATABASE should be a separate GRANTed authority.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

clone table : add the same new column automaticly to the inactive table

When you add a new column to the active table, add the same column automaticly to the inactive table. (Similar to what happens when you add a new column in temporal tables)
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Display Services Tier operating system resources in Ops Console

In an environment where ISD jobs are exposed and IGC is also used it would be useful to be able to view the resources for the services tier.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automate Service Framework Task creation. Ability to export and import Service Framework Tasks definitions

Is it possible to export service framework configurations from one environment such as Dev and import those same configurations into a new environment such as SIT? The task of doing this manually from env to env is tedious and time consuming as we...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

usability of the new IBM Watson tts demo site

When we did the project "spaceships with opinions" the IBM Watson tts-demo site was a great help. So I feel I have a responsibility to tell you how I think the new site is failing. https://www.ibm.com/demos/live/tts-demo/self-service/home It works...
over 3 years ago in Speech Services 3 Not under consideration

Upload Historical rates

Our client would like to translate cash flow line items at a more accurate rate than just using the M, D or B rate. In order to provide them the functionality we would make use of the historical rates table. Their concern is that head office shoul...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow TAPEUNITS to use virtual tape drives

The COPY utility utilizing templates allows for TAPEUNITS(0) to let COPY decide the appropriate number of physical tape drives to use. If all tape drives are virtual, copy will only use one tape drive. This requires hard coding TAPEUNITS(n) to get...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Catalog command with comment string length 30 chars is too short

Catalog command with comment string limit of 30 chars is too short. The examples in the knowledge center document use longer strings.We use the string to contain our FQDN server names and often the limit enforces us to short names.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Classic CDC to Support column-level CodePage selection

I work at a financial institution where we process mainframe information in EBCDIC CodePage 037, 838, 930 and 937.Currently we plan to work around a CodePage limitation by generating four separate subscriptions; one for each EBCDIC CodePage we wan...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration