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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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Message DSNX241I will not appear after -SET SYSPARM if ENCRYPTION_KEYLABEL did not change

We are running DB2 12 FL 509 and zparm parameter ENCRYPTION_KEYLABEL does not have a value (is null or blank). Even having ENCRYPTION_KEYLABEL set to null, every time I issue a -SET SYSPARM command to reload the same zparm module (after altering o...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Activity log for table updates

Show activity logs for tables published in the catalog (e.g. show table updates, name of the column recently added, date of the column deletion, etc.).
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

AI-Powered Neurodivergent Employment Support and Identification Collaborative Concept

Proposal: AI-Powered Neurodivergent Employment Support and IdentificationCollaborative Concept Developed by: John C. Payte and IBM Watsonx Powered AI (Version: Watson Assistant 4.7.1, Model: wa-nlp-4.7.1-2022-07-15) Introduction:As a collaborative...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Enable Multifactor Authenticated user ids to use SQL data insight

Currently SQL Data Insight UI site does not recognize the MFA enabled User ids. We get RACF authorization error in the back end. MFA Enable user ids(Super privileged user ids in our organization) are used to satisfy the compliance requirements for...
4 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Transfer all content of application section from TM1 Perspectives to PAXL

Many of our clients used to work with PA using TM1 Perspecives ribbon in Excel. This tool allowed grouping excel sheets and cube views in separate folders. This option was very usefull and convenient for users because they can easily find proper v...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add bitmap indexes

Add persisted bitmap indexes similar to Oracle. Same use case as for Oracle.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Partial early aggregation (PEA) in a federation system

Extend the Db2 optimizer combined with federation for partial early aggregation (PEA). Push down SQL queries to a federated database to reduce traffic from the remote source significantly.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Allow column ALIAS in HAVING clause

Just recently while working on a customer we were able to speedup a very slow query by using the recently introduced OLAP functions. The query looks like this: SELECT col1, col2, col3, col4, rank() over (partition by col1, col2 order by col4 desc)...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB Script to purge entire data set

When DEV is refreshed with PROD data, Clients would not want to expose their confidential data on a Non-PROD environment. To some extent there are purge/anonymization APIs but it is object/resource specific. It would be better to have a DB script ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Convert PBR tablespace to PBG without an outage

Right now we have situations come up where applications and DBAs have created partition by range (PBR) tables, and there is a need later on to convert these to partition by growth (PBG). Currently there is no way to do this without dropping the ob...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release