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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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Remove The Need To REORG A Table Up On Performing Table Alter/REORG Recommended Operations

Today when we perform certain operations aka REORG recommended operations against a table like adding columns, dropping columns, changing datatype of a column, altering NULLABILITY of a column etc. the table will be put in a state called REORG pen...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

View Active Advanced Settings

Currently when implementing advanced settings in the manage flyout, you must input the parameter, such as ContentApps.updateTargetObjectWhenOverwrite, and input a value, for example True. Once you have implemented this feature the only way to see ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Idea For Limited Partition Locking for RI Related Objects

Lock just the partitions of related objects using a cascaded key structure when utilities are used to write to the database. Allows Db2 RI use to coexist with utility operation when it is impractical to lock all partitions of parents and children.
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Include/exclude fields from bulk update in TFUI & do not force update of controller fields

Please allow for configuration of which fields within an object can be bulk updated. This way, bulk update can honor the fields that are editable in a task view. Please do not force update/selection of controller fields. I understand why you would...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Nested Folder Structures

Our Team of Content Authors, typically organise their work / responsibilities in folders. Having a nested / hierarchical folder, would all creators to also group their own work into logical blocs.
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

job resource usage correction

My developers always submit distributed jobs to the cluster, when their jobs ends with OOM error in one of the nodes, bjobs or bacct commands find that the job's memory usage is incorrect. For example , in server's '/var/log/message' we can see th...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

Control loadbalancing type of db2u-c service in Kubernetes

DB2 only offers nodePort for external exposure. However it would be natural to be able to control the loadbalcing type (i.e. ClusterIP by default, but allow for LoadBalancer). Additionally it would be favourable to place annotations on the service...
5 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

HTML Item for Dashboard

We are an Australian based software company (Pronto Software) which bundles with Cognos Analytics. We are rolling out new Dashboards based on Cognos Analytics and retiring older versions built using Cognos 10. We have a pain point however - we are...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
5 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted