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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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Lighter Weight db2fodc -hang

Db2 Support often asks customers to collect db2fodc -hang to investigate hang issues. This is an heavyweight command that causes severe impact to customers' workload. We need a lighter weight db2fodc -hang command that allows users to input an app...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

read solution from cpo file

For CP-Optimizer, it would be great to have the ability to read a given solution from a file and pass it to a cpo model as a starting point and also enable to check this solution feasibility
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Filters on Canvas

When creating dashboards in ESA you can add filters to your canvas but have no ability to format the filters to make them easily read or tie in with the format pallet or typeface used on the rest of the dashboard. This means if you resize the filt...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Enhance DB2 System Profile’s history table

Although DB2 profile history tables are available, they cannot currently provide a complete history of enabled and disabled profiles. Actually, a DB2 profile is registered in the history tables only for START PROFILE commands, and only if the prof...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

enhancement for dmdecodebookmark command

It would be very useful if the value of the bookmark is translated into a timestamp for the administration of the product.
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Modernizing ADABAS: Optimizing INSERT into Adabas Virtual Tables

One of the key points in a modernization project for a site with Adabas is to “normalize” Adabas Data Model. DVM offers a normalized Data Model for any Adabas file, converting MU/PE fields into auxiliary Tables. This normalization has a cost: you ...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve instance data without connecting to a regular (tenant) database

Several of the in-memory monitoring table functions and views return data which is instance-related. Still, a database connection is needed just for the purpose of having authentication / authorization / connection handle. This requires administra...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve the list of active databases using SQL

Coming from snapshot monitoring, the goal is to use in-memory monitoring and SQL in the least intrusive way to monitor the health of a Db2 instance and its databases. Right now, this is done by connecting to a non-tenant dummy database and running...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Include a pre-provisioned Object storage included in instance and allow this storage to be growable for a fee.

When you provision a SaaS instance of watsonx.data, a default S3/COS/?? 400GB storage should be included and configured with the instance for ease of use. This storage should be growable from to as much as they want for additional fee.
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

Task View - Expand/Collapse Slider

In the Task Views, it would be great to have another slider (similar to Reveal editable fields) that could expand/collapse all sections. If a user selects "Expand All," then all sections expand. If the user selects "Collapse All," all sections col...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration