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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Add SORTNPSI_USED To SYSIBM.SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

Use case/business impact. All indexes reorged on Sunday. Run daily process to identify any index needing reorged by interrogating RTS. Since NPSI organization can rapidly deteriorate, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to secure specific folders with password or to hide them in Cognos Analytics

Ability to secure specific folder with password or to hide it in Cognos Analytics.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

increase the limit of option response

Currently, the "option" response type of a dialog node supports 20 options. This limit is very low, because in many cases this type of response is used to list branches, cities, etc. It should be at least 100 options the limit.
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Tighter control on data combination

Many limited and statistically de-ID datasets limit what data can it be combined with, for fear of increasing re-identificaiton risk.
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

In-built CP4D Cloudera Impala connector should allow for custom JDBC parameters

When creating a connection and selecting the cloudera impala connector, the form used to configure the connection does not allow for JDBC parameters to be added at the end of the jdbc connection string, e.g. jdbc:impala://<HOST>:<PORT>...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Tighter control on data download

Many PHI (e.g., client data) and some other de-identified datasets have restrictions against moving the data outside of an "agreed upon" requirement
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

RTM: Add automation option to perform license & cluster devices automation after maintenance

when "Add Graph Frequency" of LSF clusters or License services are set to a day, is it possible to schedule the add graph process (devices update) at the end of the maintenance window. should be linked to RFE 72420
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: Have automation run serially per cluster and license device

to avoid devices update conflict and server perf degradation, serialize license services and LSF clusters update (mainly when update frequency is set to a day). should by linked with RFE 72419.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Hybrid blu column / row tables

Create a new table type wich allow to mix row / column organized table.
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DBM parameter just for DB2diag file

Currently we have db2diag files as part of dbm parameter (DIAGPATH) and all the files (db2diag.log, events,nfy,bin,stack,stmm,dump) going into the same directory. The challenge is in case of issues, we see huge dump files produced (sometimes 40gb ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration