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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.

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Extended Composite Key Support in IKC-RDM

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC-RDM limits the creation of composite keys to a maximum of 6 columns. This restriction can be insufficient for certain reference data sets that require more columns to uniquely identify records. Proposed Solution: ...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automated Reference Data Synchronization with Datalake HIVE Tables

Problem Statement: Currently, synchronizing Reference Data with Datalake and accessible from Hive Tables is a manual process involving data export from IKC and manual transfer to the Azure cloud platform. This approach is inefficient and error-pro...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automated Reference Data Synchronization with Azure Databricks Delta Tables

Problem Statement: Currently, synchronizing Reference Data with Azure Databricks Delta Tables is a manual process involving data export from IKC and manual transfer to the Azure cloud platform. This approach is inefficient and error-prone. Propose...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Enhanced Data Export File Format Support for Reference Data

Problem Statement: Currently, Reference data export functionality is limited to CSV format, restricting its versatility and usability for various data destinations. Proposed Solution: Expand Reference data export capabilities to support a wider ra...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Enhanced Data Import File Format Support for Reference Data

Problem Statement: Currently, Reference data import functionality is limited to CSV format, restricting its versatility and usability for various data sources. Proposed Solution: Expand RDM's data import capabilities to support a wider range of co...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automated RD Type Modification with Data Migration

Problem Statement: Currently, modifying RD Types in IBM-RDMs requires creating new RD Sets and RD Types, which can be inefficient and error-prone. Additionally, handling reference data during RD Type modifications involves manual steps, leading to...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automated MAPs/SETs Update with Reference Data Handling

Problem Statement: Currently, updating MAPs/SETs in IBM requires a manual process of exporting reference data, updating MAPs/SETs, publishing new MAPs/SETs, and loading data back. This process is time-consuming and error-prone. Proposed Solution: ...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Synchronized Fields option when using shared field group in different objects

When you use a field group in multiple objects it would be great to have the option at the field level to check synchronized field. This would allow the data in the field of one object to be synchronized the the same field in a different object wh...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review
200 VOTE

Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 21 Not under consideration

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release