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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Create reference table for table with TYPE=H

We use reference tables extensively. We create them using the stored procedure SYSPROC.ACCEL_CREATE_REFERENCE_TABLES Unfortunately we cannot create them for history tables (TYPE=H in SYSTABLES). We want you to add that to the solution. We have not...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

suspend and resume sessions under workload API

Currently we can only do with with either command line tool or admin API. Can we add this to all language specific workload APIs We have receive feedbacks from client this will be a good to have feature directly from the C#, C++ and Java API.
25 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Rest API to Close and Open Hosts

currently we only have get methods for host. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=SSZUMP_7.3.2/api/rest/ego/v1/api_reference/ego.htm can we expose host close ( with or without reclaim) and open under Rest API?
25 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Increase the Max Index Size Allowed

This would allow the system to continue scaling without having to design a new process utilizing the existing indexes.
25 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

UNLOAD SYSPUNCHONLY or UNLOAD NOSYSREC

We are having many developers that need only the SYSPUNCH produced by UNLOAD but not the SYSREC. Having this option available either via SYSPUNCHONLY or NOSYSREC parameter will allow them to get quickly what they need without unloading of data whi...
25 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Submitted

Increase window size when searching for data asset

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Runstats on new views in WQ

Give option to runstats/collectstats in WQ on views. Want option to do this by default when virtualizing. CALL DVSYS.COLLECT_STATISTICS.
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

S3 connection remove pod configuration step

WQ s3 connections, RFE so you don’t have to edit the coresight xml manually for AWS bucket connections. Cannot make s3 connection directly from UI even though connector screen exists.
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted