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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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XML Schema 1.1

DB2 PureXML does not support XML Schema Version 1.1, although it would be very useful. XML Schema Version 1.1 goes far to correct numerous inadequacies in XML Schema Version 1.0 for extensibility of data models in order to meet future needs.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Change behaviour of duplicate entries in Range Lookups

When using a range lookup (range selected on the main stream) when matching e.g. a key column and range of date from/to you may get more than one hit for the key but the range on the date columns will make the lookup unique, in this case you still...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Missing OK Button on Passive Modals

Passive modals previously presented an "OK" button to the user to close the message. The "OK" button has been removed and there is no configurable option to add it back.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fuzzy phrase query

The customer requires phrase query using fuzzy character "∼". For instance, "homicides with firearms"∼1.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

QW148TTK unreliable when thread is in-doubt

IFCID 0148 Monitor Detail Record 2 field QW148TTK is incorrect when the thread being reported is in-doubt and as evidenced by cross-checking with DB2 -DISPLAY THREAD output. Requesting either a correct QW148TTK for in-doubt threads or a means to d...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable PAX config options for users

We would like to see an feature or option to disabled the user specific options in PAX. In particular we would like to prevent users from being able to modify the data row limit setting and any other settings that would allow users to run large MD...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Avoid the database, configured in HADR, on primary side experience an outage when the database on the standby side experience any problem.

We use Db2 pureScale in many environments using POWER System. For our disaster recovery strategy we use HADR for each database between sites. In a specific situation of when some standbys databases experienced HADR_FLAGS = STANDBY_RECV_BLOCKED, re...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Drill straight to file

It wold be great to be able to avoid the "preview" window if you want in the drill process (maybe an admin-setting in each process you set up). In order to get a csv straight away. When you right click a cell and select drill all available drill p...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically Update Hierarchies

Static StructureHierarchies are static; as you add or update elements in the underlying dimension, associated hierarchies are not refreshed. New dimension elements are not added to the hierarchy.Changed hierarchy attributes for dimension elements ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Quick navigation of hierarchies in Tiles

If you have set up a widget showing a hierarchy tree, when you double click on a hierarchy today it opens that level and it's children. A nice feature would be to be able to still navigate in the tree easily without first having to go back up the ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration