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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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Number of Occurrences for Alert

Alerts need to have the option to set a consecutive number of ocurrences for a check before it alerts. This is an option present in other monitoring tools and prevents a lot of false alerts. Example being number of connections, we have an threshol...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

show instance in Watson Assistant UI (as was the case in prior version)

The Watson Assistant UI used to show the instance, but that was removed. Now, we need to go to the profile icon and click on it. So, please when in WA and editing a skill, it would be very helpful to display the instance on the screen instead of h...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Enable Comments in Saved Output Versions

Many of our Cognos 10 users used the enable comments in saved output version feature so they can capture their commentary with their reports. We would like to have a similar ability in CA 11 to view existing saved commentary when viewing a saved o...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cubeview Expand functionality with disabled borders on selection

Expand is a new functionality available for cube views & visualizations, but it's currently tied with new selection borders functionality, available always in Edit mode and when Show selected border in preview is enabled. What I'm looking for ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add data masking support for BLOB columns

We have some RTF data loaded into the new DB2 Warehouse environment as a BLOB column in table UDF_CIS_RAW_DV.SXACDCLIENTDOCDETAILTEXT_GUID_DETAILTEXT and we're able to extract it back into an RTF by casting the DetailText field as varbinary, but w...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

New dynamically moving User Interface UI causes accidental delete

The new UI that dynamically resizes the dialog node tree, the details of the currently selected node and the search panel is very helpful. However, I ran into an issue where I was trying to click on something and just as I pushed the button, the s...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Bufferpool and tablespace creation authority to DBADM

Create of a tablespace and bufferpool requires SYS* authorities. It made sense in earlier days when SYS folks needed to create filesystem, mount point etc. With automatic storage enabled database, it makes a perfect sense to delegate these authori...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Enhancement ALTER of STOGROUP to be NO-DISRUPTIVE change.

As we all know to perform an ALTER DB.TS/IX USING STOGROUP XXXXX a STOP/ALTER/START process is required which is a DISRUPTIVE change. So, looking for an enhancement on that ALTER process maybe it could be "improved" by putting the involved Db2 obj...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request IDAA V7 Container code via Shop Z and SMP

Today, V7 container code for both IIAS and Z are downloaded from Fix Central. It is a different download and website than normal Stored Procedure and other Db2 related maintenance PTFs. Some customers have download issues such as download runs for...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration