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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Invalid maximum timestamp value availble in DB2

Currently there is documented maximum timestamp value available in DB2 as '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000'. However, using this value can lead to various problems which are recognized by DB2 development already as during introduction of temporal table...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Grouping / Clustering of Turbointegrator

We have more then 700 processes. It would be nice if you could sort them by individual categories and group them in the in the display tree.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

System Audit Log - Detailed Extract

Quarterly SOX compliance requires detail (Company, Account, Amount) found when clicking "show details" button for each modified form within System Audit Log for a given period. Currently manually opening each entry to verify amendments made by spe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel: "All leaves" item in Task Pane

It would be useful to have an "All leaves" item for each dimension in task pane, e. g. for the creation of lists.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pseudo IFCID 316

When using REOPT(ALWAYS) on a batch package to deliberately avoid filling the Dynamic Statement Cache (DSC) the SQL is, correctly, not inserted into the DSC and is not exrternalized by an IFCID 316. However this then "hides" the workload from moni...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add function LISTAGG like DB2 and Oracle

Every query which need to group by and concat few columns is impossible with informix. For example for this SQL : select t.tabname, c.constrname ,k.checktext, k.seqno from sysconstraints c, systables t , outer syschecks k where t.tabname = 'my...
over 4 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

TFUI - Return to same position following refresh

A common theme following a user survey was users raising issues around how a tabs refresh in the TFUI. This is either following an update applied, or whilst working on another tab, then returning to the original tab. Users fed back that following ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Support timeouts at the node level for Watsonx Pipelines

Currently Watsonx Pipelines doesn't support timeouts so we can cap each task/job. This is important given long-running batch pipelines where we typically want to make have a cap in case something goes wrong otherwise we run the risk of resource wa...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Support retries at the node level in Watsonx Pipelines

Currently Watsonx Pipelines do not support interacting at the node level for restarting tasks in case of failures and require rerunning the entire pipeline job. This makes it complicated to use for complex pipelines where any given task could fail...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review