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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Multiple SDU models per Collection

in my domain of business, clients put different kind and format of documents in the same collection. We need the possibility to have multiple SDU models in the same collection. Every SDU model get applied to a specific set of files identified by a...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Expand IFCID 258 to include the last available partition (based on MAXPARTITIONS) of a partitioned table spaces.

IBM already produces IFCID 258 when an extent is taken. Would IBM may consider the expansion into the last available partition to be a noteworthy event or either inform the MAXPARTITION value. So, the percentage of available partitions can be calc...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support notebook code to write any file format and allow user to 'Export' (download)

Currently, DSXL only supports writing .csv files in Data Sets. In that case, the user can view the file and export/download the file to the local machine for further processing.Other file formats can be written, but the file cannot be viewed or ex...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Allow comments to defined risk lists to be loaded when entries are uploaded with a file

Currently, when a defined risk list is loaded with a file, only the main item of the list can be auto-loaded, comments to this item can be input only manually, which basically means the client will either have to do this for hundreds and thousands...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Under review

Add support for APPL_ID in CREATE TRUSTED CONTEXT for LUW

In Db2 for z/OS the CREATE TRUSTED CONTEXT allows for the inclusion of JOBNAME.There is currently no equivalent in the Db2 LUW version as of 12.1. I would like to suggest that APPL_ID be added in Db2 LUW to give a similar functionality. This w...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

Send schedule only when there is data (without using event studio)

Our users are sending reports to external customers and they want to send these reports only when there is a data in the report.If there is no data, then they don't want to send any email.They cannot use Event studio as they don't have access to.I...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Handling Refresh tokens(Schedule strategy) for Azure AD generic namespace.

In OIDC Generic security namespace , there is an option to use Refresh tokens as a scheduling strategy instead of using the password flow. When this approach is used , refresh tokens will be used for getting an access token when the schedule runs/...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Online restore of a range partition. Db2 takes a lock on the whole table during the restore.

I have a range partition table with NO global indexes. The partitions have their own tablespaces. Db2 takes a Z lock on the whole table when restoring a single partition.We thought that we could restore a partition online and that all the other pa...
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Audit table for datasets

Want to be able to monitor dataset growth/decline of time. e.g. -size -number of rows -number of columns
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Pass data from a GenAI prompt to directly into agentic workflows

Form Capabilities and Integration with GenAI: Our team was encouraged to utilize Flows for (future) form capabilities. However, we've found it impossible to pass information from a GenAI prompt to directly into these Flows, leveraging user input f...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information