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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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Add REORG LONGLOBDATA for columnar tables

Currently we can create columnar tables with CLOB/LOB columns in it. What we can't do is reclaim the allocated diskspace of the CLOB/LOB columns (LOB_OBJECT_P_SIZE) in columnar tables To get an idea about how many diskspace is allocated: db2 "...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

For Dynamic SQL that is stabilized, Add the SDQ_STMT_ID

For Dynamic SQL statements listed in Query Monitor, it is important to know if the SQL statement is/was Stabilized. Listing the SDQ_STMT_ID that is assigned to the Query in both the online monitor and downloaded into CQM_SUMM_METRICS can help with...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Creating a specific/Dedicated WML Runtime Node

Currently, WML does not allow scheduled runtime pod (enable pod affinity) on a dedicated node, Due to this we are increasing the Node Size where WML is running, based on the Load we need to scale accordingly. So we request to have a Dedicated Node...
12 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Allow for adding packages and custom environments for WML.

This will allow the users to create custom environments and add needed packages in the customization section. This way all the needed packages are installed at the time the environment is spun up. This ability is currently available when creating ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Adding packages and custom environments to RStudio.

This will allow the users to create custom environments and add needed packages in the customization section. This way all the needed packages are installed at the time the environment is spun up. This ability is currently available when creating ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

DMC Backup Restore

It would be great if database administrators could manage and schedule backups and restores from the DMC in Cloud Pak.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Use of temp folder

My suggestion is that the themes and extension are not temporary and do not belong in a folder called temporary it causes confusion and difficulty when diagnosing. These should be moved to another folder outside the temp folder.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

smart formatting in italian language

it would be very useful to implement this functionality to further refine the transcription of audio in speech to text service.Currently the transcription is very poor: lack of punctuation, conversion from letters to numbers, lack of recognition o...
12 months ago in Speech Services 1 Future consideration

Provide Db2 utility messages regarding the usage (or not) of the Large Block Interface

The Large Block Interface (LBI) provided by z/OS can be used by Db2 utilities (such as COPY) to greatly reduce the utility runtime of when creating data sets on tape devices. The LBI must first be enabled through the DEVSUPxx member of SYS1.PARMLI...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Sequence Object "end of range" Alert

We recently had a Production application fail because a Db2 sequence object reached the end of its range unexpectedly. This caused our web users to be unable to logon for a short period of time. DBAs are implementing external tooling to monitor se...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration