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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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Allow more then 8bytes for DATABASE NAME.(RIMS)

Database names are currently limited to 8 characters (bytes) in size. This is painful when dealing with hundreds/thousands of databases.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index creation for partitions of a partitioned-table(RIMS)

[JPMC EDW] Currently, a create-index statement with the PARTITIONED clause will process each partition sequentially. Ideally DB2 would perform this with some degree of parallelism. Currently, this can be accomplished by detaching the individual pa...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Victimization of unused compression dictionaries from DBHEAP(RIMS)

Compression and Expansion dictionaries for each object (table, index) remain in memory until database deactivation time. This is problematic because enough DBHEAP must be allocated to host a compression/expansion dictionary for EACH object that is...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

PAX Action Button Refresh - Execute Calculation Options before display Success/Failure Message

In Perspectives once an action button runs a TurboIntegrator process, the "Calculations" section under Options is applied first then the success/failure messages are displayed. This allows the developer to have custom success/failure messages whic...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Competitive WDS pricing plans for GTS

GTS, one of our big IBM internal clients use Elastic search instead of Discovery. Their key pain point is the pricing for WDS. With Elastic Search they pay $20 / month and get similar capability and results. GTS wants to see a better pricing model...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Oracle-style isolation level 3 (multi-version read consistency) locking.(RIMS)

A description of Oracle's 'multi-version read consistency' can be found here: http://www.ss64.com/orasyntax/10locking.html. Even DB2's most liberal CS isolation is more strict then this. [update 04-27-2009]: Support for isolation level 3 queries t...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Quick Scan: include Data Class assignment in Column edit actions #cpfield

users are able to assign/reassign business terms in the Quick Scan column review/actions window. Data Class assignments and/or suggestions are present the same as business terms, but there is no options to take action on the Data Class. Editing bo...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

Cant create a db2 service

Can't create a db2 service
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Hide "What's New" banner (home page) for group of users

We would like to show "What's New" banner for some groups of users and hide for another. It would be nice to hide the banner base on user role or group.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Interactive Elastic Distributed Training notebook in Watson Studio

Watson Machine Learning Accelerator Elastic Distributed Training (EDT) simplifies the distribution of training workloads for the data scientist. Deep learning experiment in Watson studio provide the UI to submit job in WMLA , but this is not inter...
over 3 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration