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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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Make it possible to synchronize IMS and VSAM data with CP4D on Linux One

At the present time IBM Data Gate for watsonx is not available for Linux One (only x86).
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

A search function is required to search "Key Conditions" because it is very difficult to find a paragraph when the list contains many hundreds of paragraph names

This is beneficial to anyone is attempting to refactor a COBOL program into a new service. The list of Key Conditions that is generated can be hundreds of lines long (we have one program with 889 paragraphs) and it is VERY difficult to locate a de...

Please replace "password rules" by "password evaluations"

When installing DB2 for GKLM, I am asked to provide passwords (DB2 and Application), that contains 2 digits, a special, an upper-case and a lower-case character. I tell customers about "quantum safe", long passwords and using special characters. H...
4 months ago in Db2 / Security 1 Submitted

Schedule for daily or hourly web scraping in Discovery SaaS

At the moment Discovery SaaS has a scheduling option for weekly web scrapes, but this option doesn't exist for daily. Implement a scheduling feature that would accommodate daily or even hourly web scrapes. At the most frequent option for scraping ...
8 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

Control loadbalancing type of db2u-c service in Kubernetes

DB2 only offers nodePort for external exposure. However it would be natural to be able to control the loadbalcing type (i.e. ClusterIP by default, but allow for LoadBalancer). Additionally it would be favourable to place annotations on the service...
4 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

HTML Item for Dashboard

We are an Australian based software company (Pronto Software) which bundles with Cognos Analytics. We are rolling out new Dashboards based on Cognos Analytics and retiring older versions built using Cognos 10. We have a pain point however - we are...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
4 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Allow for all Action Usage at Merge

It would be beneficial is we could update more than just inputs at the time of Merge. Having the ability to reference all possible actions would provide more flexibility and allow for quicker usage of data. There are payloads that along with updat...
8 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Add parameters to SubsetMDXSet and HierarchySubsetMDXSet to allow invalid/null MDX expressions

SubsetCreateByMDX has a parameter to allow MDX expressions to save even if they evaluate to null or invalid. There should be an equivalent parameter added to the following functions - HierarchySubsetMDXSet - SubsetMDXSet Reason is a lot of times s...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted