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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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externalize generic runstats information for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS

Currently RUNSTATS does not store generic statistical results for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS - as it does for other data types -, like numnulls etc.This information in SYSCAT.COLUMNS is used for administrative, automated tasks worldwide, but ca...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

Support WKS subtypes

When uploading a trained WKS model as machine learning enrichment, only entities are detected and indexed, but not subtypes (on WD for CP4D). Please also consider supporting subtypes in the planned real-time NLP feature.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Expand error message -532 and output parent table name and child table name

Table1 has 4 level foreign key Table1 to Table2 --> FK_01 Table2 to Table3 -->FK_01, FK_02 Table3 to Table4-->FK_01, FK_02 Table4 to Table5 --> FK_01 If I delete row in Table1, I get the message: DSNT408I SQLCODE = -532, ERROR: THE REL...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Modernize dbexport/dbimport and control them from HQ

dbexport and dbimport are useful tools, very easy to use and straight forward. but as the database are growing exponentially, the tool is showing its limitations and a workaroud must be generally be applied, which are kind of time consuming to wri...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Conditional automatic journals to post values on different from REPO journal types

When using conditional automatic journals, it is not possible to re-direct postings to a different journal type then REPO, even if puting it on "Journal type" field, on control table. Even if filtering Trial Balance to show only REPO/BASE, automat...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 8 Needs more information

Enhance MON_GET_TRANSACTION_LOG to return Transaction Log number of OLDEST_TX_LSN and the Transaction log number of the minbuflsn recovery information returned by db2pd -dirtypages

Enhance MON_GET_TRANSACTION_LOG to return Transaction Log number of OLDEST_TX_LSN and the Transaction log number of the minbuflsn recovery information returned by db2pd -dirtypages. For example when trying to identify the reason for the First Acti...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Provide LOBS support for columns over 32kb

There is currently no LOBS support for columns over 32kb in BigSQL Hadoop tables. For column which size is over 32KB, there's a limitation on the DDL when creating the table (maximum size is 32672), hence whole data/string couldn't be retrieved wh...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

GenAI assistant to talk with ADDI

It would be great if we could interact with all the data that ADDI has using a GenAI like assistant, so It would be like asking the most senior developer/product owner about all the components that addi discovers.
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reorg Rebalance for partitions with different DSSIZE

Reorg Rebalance tries to set new partition boundaries so that rows are evenly distributed across the reorganized partitions. It does not consider that the partitions can have different values for DSSIZE. So the functionality of Reorg Rebalance sho...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration