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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Increase size of scroll bars

Is there any chance of increasing the size of the scroll bars and maybe highlight the size of the scroll bar area? When moving around the screen quickly it is difficult to pinpoint the location of the scroll bar area (hence highlight the size of s...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

IIDR CDC backup and recovery documentation

Couldn't find much information regarding the cdc backup and recovery procedures, especially CDC for BQ.
6 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Support for data type binary for joins in IBM Cognos Analytics data modules and Framework Manager

In relational star schema models it is very common using columns with a hash with type binary(16) for the join condition between dimension table and fact table. The advantages are a well-chosen hash function will almost always generate unique valu...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

CPD Backup with Storage Fusion for Db2 in HADR mode

Right now it is not possible to use Storage Fusion Software to backup Db2 on CPD, when Db2 is operating in HADR mode. We need to be able to backup Db2 on CPD with Storage Fusion, even when Db2 is running in HADR mode
7 days ago in Db2 1 Submitted

Filter by Type in the Data folder through the Drive Explorer

This was available in perspectives and helps in several ways. You can select a certain type ie feeders and right click properties and get the total space consumed by your feeders. Also it helps just to narrow down the number of files you have to s...
12 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted
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Apple Silicon / M1 / M2 / M3 Support for IBM ODBC/CLI Driver

As a developer on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip, I want to use the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver (downloadable from here) natively. Emulating is possible but since I am using this driver via Python, all my other Python code now needs to run emulated as w...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 48

db2u-operator should be able to restore a DB to a point in time

Currently db2u restores a database and rollforwards it to end of logs per default. The point in time restore option is an essential feature in every modern DB, and in OpenShift-environments even more so since logging in into the db2-container shou...
14 days ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Under review

db2u-operator should be available in OperatorHub.io

Our OpenShift environments require a certified source for OpenShift-operators: OperatorHub.ioCurrently db2u is not available there, what prevents us from deploying the operator in our environment. By mirroring a db2u-repository from OperatorHub.io...
14 days ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow S3-compatible store for saas project storage

Currently only IBM Cloud Object Storage is available for project storage for saas watsonx.ai projects. Some clients want to make use of saas services for GPU and model compute but keep all of their project storage in on-prem S3 compatible stores. ...
19 days ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted