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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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Configure multi-user login for DVM JGATE admin site

Scenario: Currently the only way to access the DVM JGATE site (https://db2_subsystem:port/gateway) is to use the admin username and password established during the DVM installation. The data sources within the interface are managed by us, the DB2 ...
2 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted

Capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D

We would like to capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D. This will provide visibility on what customer transactions are running on the platform. The key fields that we are interested in are as follow...
30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Requesting an option to control whether the job (high availability load) should run or fail if an accelerator is unavailable

In today's environment, HALOAD job fails if one of the accelerators is unavailable, and it impedes table data refresh on all accelerators in the job. Allowing HALOAD job to continue execution by skipping the unavailable accelerator will mitigate t...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Under review

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
5 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Under review
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Show list of recently used data packages when creating new report

We have a large list of Framework Manager packages to pick from in our Cognos production environment and our users rely on the functionality currently in Cognos 10 to select from a list of recently used packages. Cognos Analytics does not offer th...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Replicate a table with XML data type from IBM i (iseries AS400)

In the last few days we have had a situation in some customer with SAP on IBM i running, in which due to the characteristics of modernization of the database to adapt it for the use of new technologies, we have seen an increase in the requirement ...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Multiple Workbenches Open

It would be very helpful for developers and admins to be able to have more than one workbench open at a time, the same way you can have multiple books open. I understand you can only have one "new workbench*" open at a time, which is fine. My prop...
2 months ago in Product Master 1 Under review

Marking a project as sensitive on Default Git integration

One big restriction of CP4D git integration for KB Bank is that the customer need to set Sensitive to projects by their security policy but it’s not available with Default Git integration. As the option is available with Deprecated Git integration...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Improvements to the Transformer Component in CP4D:

- The Variable Stages: only one stage is visible at a time, and it is not possible to view the entry fields with its properties.- The output derivation: if the link is long, it is hard to know what fileds are to be derived, and whihc transfromatio...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration