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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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Expanding Explain feature to do batch and inserting directly in Confluence templates

The customer would like a few additional features added to the Explain feature. First, they would like batch processing, where they can select several COBOL programs and allow them to process them to gather the explanation all at once and the poss...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Temporal Table supported by CDC for IBM i

Temporal table is only supported by CDC for DB2 LUW as source/target and for z/OS as src only. We requiere replicate Temporal Tables by CDC for IBM i to have a DR up to date.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Baselines and Trendlines on the Cognos Visualizations

We need baselines and trendlines in Report Studio visualizations but they are not available
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Give ISAM/tabid when syspurge() fails

We had a purge that was failing for a protracted period and it took a lot of trapping and tracing to figure out why, since the full error details were not being reported. In the interim, performance degraded and we risked running out of space.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Request support for Windows 2025

Add support for Windows 2025
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Under review

Remove Group Based Access Limitation

Description of Limitation: IBM has defined a few limitations with role based access which include the following: A role cannot own database objects. Permissions and roles granted to groups are not considered when you create the following database ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

DataStage or Cloud Pak for Data does not support IAM role-based access to the S3 bucket

The current version of DataStage or Cloud Pak for Data does not support IAM role-based access to the S3 bucket. Due to security constraints, instead of using an access key/secret key, it would be ideal if the S3 connector allowed the use of IAM ro...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Restore documentation to CPLEX Studio installer

CPLEX Studio 22.1.2 did away with the "doc" folder containing documentation for the components, including in particular the Javadoc documentation for the Java API to CPLEX. Having a local copy of the reference manuals is desirable when working off...

Support for Cognos Dashboards

Currently, the product supports lineage for Cognos models, reports, queries, and other objects, but not dashboards. However, dashboards are what users are interested in, and the lack of support in the product forces users to go outside it to conne...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Online conversion of index to partitioned index

Db2 13 Function level 500 introduces the online conversion of tables from growth-based (PBG) to range-based (PBR) partitions. The conversion alter is pending DDL applied by the REORG TABLESPACE utility. There is a need to also convert one or more ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review