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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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Improve performance of except statement

Hi, For the first time I had a use for the except statement. It is quite simple: SELECT DISTINCT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB030_BDSLOG EXCEPT SELECT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB031_BDSLOG_SLET I want all LOG_PGM from the first table, that is not in the secon...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced TM1 Source Node Performance

The current integration with TM1 source node pulls back an entire view before executing subsequent nodes which means any view that you need to query must either be limited to only the data you need or it pulls back additional data that is not need...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use Surrogate Key Generator in DataStage for Netezza DBMS

We are trying to use the balanced optimizer feature in DataStage 9.1 to rewrite the ETL logic in SQL that runs on the Netezza appliance instead of the DataStage server. We are looking for a way to generate the surrogate keys that works in DataStag...
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

retain /etc/sudoers after upgrade

We are doing authorization through /etc/sudoers for admins to be able to login to the nz user or root. For example like below. ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/su - nz, /bin/su - root...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

backup resolv.conf prior to upgrade

We have a search path listed in the resolv.conf file. It is helpful to locate any server without using fully qualified domain name. The current upgrade is rewriting the /etc/resolv.conf file and user's home directories every time. Due to which all...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Not under consideration

DB2 Automation Utility to convert from IBM RACF DB2 External Security to IBM DB2 Internal Security.

We are requesting a DB2 Automation Utility to convert from IBM RACF DB2 External Security to IBM DB2 Internal Security. This utility must be able to do the reverse of the RACF/DB2 Conversion Utility that was used to convert data in DB2 Internal Se...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Measures for productivity in the Watson Assistant interface

For Watson Assintant interface In the "intents" creation screen there could be a button on the line to click and with that, go to the creation of the dialog with that intent filled in. It would already increase productivity. And when switching bet...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Ability to lookup the comments added against transactions on the FTM DP screens

FTM provides the abilility to add comments against the transaction. However these are recorded against the transaction in the FTM.AUDIT_INFO table but these comments are no where to be looked up in the FTM DP screen. It will be a very useful featu...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Interval parameter

It would be useful tohave the 'interval' parameter in the pop-up in cognos reports as a possibility to choose from. When building reports in cognos, the parameter is one of the values that can be selected in the getvalues function, but there i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

The ability to display a dashboard graph with more than 10 columns

Having all values displayed would be more useful. Also, the grouping of "Other" can be confusing if this is a value in the enumerated field - as some graphs display 2 x "Other" columns.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration