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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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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 "...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Optim TDM 11.7 for DB2 on z/OS - Overrides for both, SRCCID and DESTCID in Table Maps

Hello IBM, We use Optim TDM extensively for setting up Test Data by extracting from Live and inserting into different UAT environments. Instead of generating the jobs each time a request comes, we have a set of batch jobs that are run when a reque...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Enhance DataStage ODBC Component to support PGSQL MSI token authentication

Dear, in order to meet the requirements of the company's security, we have changed the connection to the PGSQL database from traditional user name and password login to MSI token authentication and Token can be used as a password to connect to PGS...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 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 ...
about 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 ...
about 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Allow the LSF Planner to ignore cetain select[] criteria

The current LSF Planner is unable to create a plan if the "bsub -R "select[blah>blah]" ./a.out" select clause does not match any hosts. This is very counter productive. For certain ELIM based resources such as 'freescratch', 'freetmp', etc. The...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow the INELIBIBLE flag to apply to Job Slots and License Scheduler Limits

Currently, the INELIGIBLE flag works for several limit classes. Unfortunately, it does not support either SLOT or License Project limits. These are important for using APS with ELIGIBLE pending time calculations and the queue limit of ELIGIBLE_PEN...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Search Capability on Workflow Instances view

Would like the ability to search on the Name field when on the Workflow Instances view. At times we need to terminate a workflow and there may be thousands of active workflows, so paging through the list attempting to find which object workflow to...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Option to completely restrict report output to save to a report

Cognos analytics has option to restrict report output and history for any report which can be configured from report properties advanced options for Report output versions. From this option we can only restrict output versions to be saved to minim...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Automatic transfer of parametrizations and new versions

Currently, all parametrizations, made in test environment, have to be transferred manually to production (the parametrization has to be repeated). The same is for version transfers. We would like to have a process for automatic transfer. The requi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration