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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
9 months ago in Data Lineage 2 Planned for future release

'KPI' visualization in PAW as in Cognos Analytics

In PAW there is the possibility to place a single cell as from an exploration on a book and thus highlight top KPIs and provide them with conditional formatting. Unfortunately, the possibilities of this visualization in PAW are limited. The functi...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

COPY bind option to DB2 LUW.

The customer needed to copy packages from the Windows V9.7 database to the AIX V11.5 database. He used the db2move utility to copy the data and would like us to have a tool to copy the COBOL program packages that exist in the DB2 Z/os environment....
5 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Submitted

Improvement in Db2 LOAD UTILITY processes associate with data replication via Qrep

-Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario: Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + DB2 v13 for zOS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Improve MDE Publish resiliency to handle and retry temporary instability

We have seen occasional failures in publish jobs where a brief instability in the platform causes a few assets in a large job to fail to publish. A retry works just fine every time. To help with this the product could identify when the publish job...
17 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Open a Pipeline or DataStage Flow from the Pipeline Canvas with 2 clicks only

For Pipeline Jobs or DataStage Job nodes in the canvas when editing a Pipeline, if you want to open the Pipeline or DataStage Flow that's being executed, you must click 4 times: Double-click the node (or right-click/menu then Open) Click the menu ...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review
110 VOTE

NONBLOCKED option for event monitors to prevent them from blocking user services

Db2 locking event monitor may block deadlocked applications from proceeding for a purpose of making event monitors work under some circumstances. (Reported on case TS007885986) Since it could damage user's business services severely, user should b...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Future consideration
199 VOTE

Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 21 Not under consideration

Lock a dimension member

When is this going to be available?
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted