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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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Add onmode -F <type> to free only certain memory e.g. vpcache.

When having e.g. excessive vpcache usage we need to free the memory and associated shared memory segments for just the vpcache. Our use case was smx buffers to it would be even better to be able to just free the 'free' smx buffers.Trying to free a...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - "clear mapping" option

"Clear mapping" is an option in DataStage Designer but not in flow designer. Don't see "clear mapping" as an option in flow designer, because of which if there is any change to remove map for a certain field, we have to start over from scratch. Fo...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0

Add Smartcard certificate support for ibm_db (Python) client driver

Python is the most popular language in the area of data science and widely used in combination with Db2 - especially in environments with IAS accelerators. At the same time, many large and/or security-concious environments in general no longer acc...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

64-bit driver for MarkLogic

We need to be able to report on data that is stored in MarkLogic and requesting IBM to enhance the platform with 64-bit driver for MarkLogic.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Archecker table level restore utility does not compatible of handling Informix engine complex table schema clauses

Individual Table restoration 'archecker' utility only support simple schema definition contents as the schema file. However, Informix engine support complex clauses when setting up a table. E.g. When fragmenting a table based on interval based fra...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support ARM64 for GNM C++ libraries.

We are using Global Name Management 7 C++ libraries for Windows and Linux amd64 as part of our system. We'd like to port our solution to Linux arm64 (AWS Graviton based). As we understand, there currently there is no support for such an architecture.
11 months ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Submitted

Translate the default names of each item in "Data quality checks"

This is trivial, but is it possible to set the default names of each item in "Data quality checks" to Japanese when the browser's display language is Japanese?One of our customers who experienced IKC hands-on commented that since names on the docu...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Integration of Instana monitoring

Hi, Instana is an IBM application monitoring product. Is an integration a future evolution of SP possible ? Regards Yvon
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Watson Assistant Entity Recognition

As a recommendation for a future upgrade, it would help if IBM could enhance the ability of Watson Assistant to recognize Entities using machine learning (sort of like Intents are recognized) such that an Entity of "arm pain" with synonyms like "s...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Cube view shortcuts under application folder

Enable cube view shortcuts under application folder this will help to replicate existing TM1web folder structure in Planning Analytics Workspace.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration