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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Add Explain Support for Arrays

Add support to allow the explain of queries which use Arrays. Queries in NSPs can arrays, and if there is a need to tune a query which uses one, the only way to do it is to iteratively drop and recreate the NSP. This significantly slows down the l...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Prevent CPD Project Users from writing and changing file permissions from Jupyter Notebook

Today, any user in a project that has permissions above the read-only permission (editor, admin) has the ability to write new files from a notebook, or change permissions for a file using chmod. This is a potential security vulnerability, and not ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Lean image for Python 3.9 for Watson Machine Learning and Watson Studio

Our clients deploying models in Watson Machine Learning or running batch scoring via the Watson Studio job framework require custom images to bring their own packages. The lean images will only contain the minimum list of packages needed for WML o...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

LOAD RESUME SHRLEVEL REFERENCE

We use LOAD REPLACE SHRLEVEL REFERENCE since the first day it was delivered. It solves so many problems. One of the things it solves is that if the load terminates/abends or we ourselves for any reason has to cancel the job the tablespace is back ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Add sid to onstat -g tpf output

When using onstat -g tpf it would be better if sid was displayed to make this easier to tie back to a session. E.g. when looking for reverse scans on the instance.
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Remove dependency on Trident Engine (IE/mshtml.dll) for CA connector within PAfE

Currently, the Planning Analytics connector within PAfE is utilizing WebView2 for authentication and subset editor pop-ups. However, the Cognos Analytics connector within PAfE still continues to use Trident (IE/mshtml.dll). This currently causes u...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

User level Monitoring of CPD resource usage

As of now there is no monitoring available in the system at the User level. We can see the resource requests/utilization with list of pods however, having more than 100 users on the platform it is hard for us to identify which user is requesting h...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

One-Fecht Index Scan for SELECT min(), max()

At the moment only a single SELECT min(a) or a SELECT max(a) uses a suitable index I(a, ...). When selecting both, min() and max(), a tablespace scan is used to determine the minimum and maximum value. With large tables this behaviour is very expe...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow APT_EXECUTION_MODE = "One process" for production environments

In our tests we found for small PX jobs the execution is sped up by almost 30% if we set APT_EXECUTION_MODE = One process. Since we have 10000 of such small job invocations in aggregate this saves a lot of time and resources. But according to IBM ...
4 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review