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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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Add support for inline file attachment editing of Microsoft Visio documents

Users can open Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages. Every time a user clicks save within a file that is opened in this way, the file is saved in the OpenPages file repository. However, other users cannot see the changes until the file i...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Perform rebuild of each index (for a table) in its own transaction

In the current design, all the index rebuilds for a table are performed within the same transaction (as the action that triggered them). If the transaction is interrupted (e.g. user interrupt or dropped session), then the entire transaction is rol...
over 10 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

nmon for IPS host monitoring

We don't have any monitoring capability like nmon at the database host level in the IPS.If we want to install, we need to get exceptions from the security team since it is not available on FixCentral. Even then, there is no guarantee it will persi...
almost 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 2 Future consideration

db2prereqcheck on AIX should detect presence of a soft link for /usr/bin/python3 as it is required by some pureScale cluster components

db2prereqcheck contains code to check the presence of python3. This is required for pureScale (GPFS in particular). However, if the softlink in /usr/bin/python3 is missing, when upgrading from Db2 11.5.8 to 11.5.9, db2prereqcheck doesn't log any m...
8 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

watsonx.data SaaS bucket activation - move this permission to User role from Admin role

For our testing around multi-tenant watsonx.data, for the most part we want users to be able to bring their own data sources (buckets and databases), and simply use the other resources of watsonx.data on IBM Cloud without direct management. Hence,...
8 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

Manage APIs as assets in the catalog

The customer is managing its own proprietary repository of apis to various systems and databases. The content of the repository is a set of YAML files and JSON files. Those files contain metadata (I will upload to the case a sample yaml file) . Th...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Remove some of the restrictions related to SQLCODE -20555

There is currently a restriction on the use of archive-enabled tables and temporal tables in one statement: The execution of this statement leads to SQLCODE -20555: SELECT * FROM DB2.LZTB0586 WHERE VNR IN ( SELECT VNR FROM DB2.LZTB0520) SQLERROR O...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add sub folders for published rules

Information Analyzer comes out of the box with a series of data quality rules that are organized into folders. However, when a user publishes a user defined rule, we are not able to add or create folders. We need to ability to organize our publish...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Add ability to create filter for null values in a field

When looking at records in a view and wanting to filter the records based on a condition, it would be nice to be able to filter on a field which does not yet have a value (null).
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration