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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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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

Read-only users for CP4DS and NPS Consoles

We need to give access to the CP4D and NPS consoles to production teams for the monitoring and diagnosis of the systems, without them being able to make any configuration changes. For this, it would be necessary to be able to create non-administr...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Planned for future release

Expose API for managing enum values programatically

Currently, Tech team manages the Reference Data defined as Enum values. We would like to eliminate this IT dependency and would like to empower the business stake holders to be able to maintain the enum list. We also have downstream systems wantin...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

Allow renaming a database when BTS Index is defined

When renaming a database that has a BTS (Basic Text Search) index defined, it fails with error -9874. In the documentation it reads: [...] The RENAME DATABASE statement fails with error -9874, however, if the specified database contains any of the...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Folder for assets

I have more than 1000+ script & data, it is hard to managed. In my local environment, there is a file-system so that I can create folders/sub-folders to put the assets in right position but it is not on CPD.
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 3 Planned for future release

Show DB2 Recovery progress status in the db2 master log

Improve the messaging in the db2 log in order to be able to have a better idea of the progress of a recovery and how long it might take. For instance, currently message DSNR048I is issued every 2 minutes during abort recovery. It would be very hel...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to force IBM LSF Application Center (PAC) to convert userID to lower case

We have PAC 10.2.0.9 hosted on linux environment. Users access it from Windows systems. As PAC is case sensitive, users cannot login until they use lower case user ID to login. So, there should be a way to force PAC to convert user ID to lower cas...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

IBM should consider releasing Db2 database software as an RPM

We currently create our own RPMs from the database software downloaded from Passport Advantage. This is time consuming and can be eliminated by having IBM package and distribute their software as an RPM for easier consumption like other DBMS vendo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Nonlinear solver for CPLEX

Add nonlinear optimization capability to CPLEX. Many real-life models are nonlinear by nature. CPLEX solver requires a linear model to work. A good nonlinear solver can often times overperform a linearized form of a real-life model. Having a nonli...
over 6 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration

enable on-line documentation in DOC Decision Optimization Center

It would be great to add online-documentation for each view displayed in Decision Optimization Center Client (Planner). The developers could therefore easily add description of the views that considerably help end-users to understand which kind of...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration