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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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Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

Administrative function to view users logged on

Ability for the administrator to view who is logged on to the system.Can currently see reports running and scheduled but can not see the users. One reason would be to see and notify users that they system needs maintenance.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Develop a collection of REST APIs and SDKs that allow to automate IBM Watson Knowledge Studio functions

Develop functions that allow to automate IBM Watson Knowledge Studio activities in Python like: 1- Upload entities and relationships 2- Upload dicts associating it to entities 3- Upload files to be annotate 4- Run annotators, specially dictionnary...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 5 Not under consideration

Email notification: Add an option "on who should be notified when a report fails and also to include the report execution status like Success/Fail in the notification"

Currently, we don't get any notification when a report (either scheduled or non scheduled report like for batch mode report execution) fails so it should be good if we can have "add an option on who should be notified when a report fails for the e...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Replication support for IIDR CDC FlexRep for CockroachDB

We are trying replicate data from DB2 to CockroachDB and we are in the initial stages of testing and we came across the Flexrep engine in CDC which can be used to replicate data using a custom JDBC driver(Used PostgreSQL). And we also tried using ...
11 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE CONTINUE after INIT

AMT kann in einem Schritt per MOVE durchgeführt werden oder in einzelnen Phasen - INIT / COPY/ REPLAY und SWAP.Ein z.B. CONTINUE würde feststellen, wie weit der Vorläufer gekommen ist und die restlichen / noch nicht durchgeführten Phasen selbständ...
11 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Increase 128 character limit for ADMIN_MODE_USERS onconfig parameter

ADMIN_MODE_USERS is a useful way of ensuring DBAs and critical monitoring scripts can connect in single user mode. Unfortunately this parameter is limited to 128 characters which is insufficient for the team we have and the three system accounts t...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

improve documentation about CONDBAT (& MDBAT) and how to watch the limit being approached

The IBM provided documentation for important ZPARM of CONDBAT and MDBAT is a bit vague on exactly what to watch for these important limits. The documentation could be improved. I reviewed the documentation for DISPLAY DDF command https://www.ibm.c...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Request to implement Auto Map functionality on Output in Hierarchical Stage

I'm using the Hierarchical Data stage to pull data via a REST API and then feed that through a JSON_Parser stage and finally map it to the output columns on the Output tab. I know in the DataStage thick client there was an option to use the Auto M...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 4

It should be possible to use subsets in DBRW formulas in PAX

It is possible to have a subset reference in DBRW formula in Perspectives, the formula is then using the total for all subset elements. This idea has not been implemented in PAX. If the user upgrades to the new version of PA and wants to use exist...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration