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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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TIMESTAMPFORMAT option in the CREATE SERVER clause

When performing federated queries from Db2 to Presto, it seems that the option TIMESTAMPFORMAT ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-jdbc ) for setting the timestamp format of the data source does currently have no impact when speci...
5 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

New Visualization showing a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below

Would it be pssible to loog an enhancement request with IBM to add a visualization which shows a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below showing the chart figures and allowing the crosstab to line up with the chart?
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Request of support CPLEX for MATLAB

Dear Ma'am/Sir, I'm aware that some time ago, IBM decided not to continue their support for a MATLAB interface. However, with this message I want to speak not only for myself, but also for the community of COBRA Toolbox users. I have had many diff...
about 1 year ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Submitted

Infosphere information server redirect url after SSO

when trying embed the IGC lineage url for a asset as an iframe in another app. When the user clicks on the link it redirects to IGC home page instead of the lineage page in igc. Below case was opened as part of troubleshooting the issue with IBM. ...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Spark pods, do better clean up for idle pods

In ticket TS016219727 we did some enhancement to the cronjob that cleans up spark idle jobs. This is an issue with CP4D 4.6 and 4.8 on-prem specifically with the Spark IDE started from Watson Studio. We would like for these enahancements to be in ...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

SSM crash and reboot

WHen SSM crash happen, after the dump creation, the service must restart automaticaly. At same times, VEMKD should detect this crash and send all applications that was to this SSM to another one and ask to the client to submit again the workload w...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Connection Manager should have an option to initiate failover if a shared memory dump is started.

In high transaction environments shared memory dumps could have enough impact they cannot be enabled.The connection manger should be able to detect that an instance is dumped shared memory and be able to initiate failover.
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Security Patching

Security fixes to be delivered separately from fix packs and easier to install (e.g., just a zap) for db2 connect. Large installation base require complex scheduling to get security patches updated. Security patching is critical due to regulatory ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enable SPLUNK on CP4D running ICPDS v1

Provide the SPLUNK client support on both the control nodes and NPS container to satisfy ever increasing audit requirements. When given the option to stay on V1 or go to V2, we were told all funcionality for V2 would be worked into V1. V2 support ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted