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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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Automatic Lock-Escalation from Row- to Extent-Level

Db2 is mainly using row-level locking and tries to avoid lock-escalation to table-level. This behavior is helpful in most of Db2s use cases, but there are some particular situations when locking on a higher level than row would be beneficial. Cons...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery query need support for Field relevany boosting / Field relevancy weighing

BMC Customer's are requesting that Watson Discovery query should allow specifyingfield relevancy boosting / field relevancy weighing when searching documents - typically for gettingmatching passages. In the absence of this Feature, BMC Customer's ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add timestamp to all -DISPLAY command outputs

More and more companies are using multiple DISPLAY commands to track for problems or usage statistics etc. The problem is that the TIMESTAMP when the command was issued is not in the output (apart from DISPLAY BLOCKERS) It would be really good to ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Identify when all members of a Data Sharing Group are up and operational

After a crash or hard down, Db2 will perform its recovery processing including GRECP and LPL processing. There are external systems (e.g. CICS, MQ, etc.) that are dependent on all members in the data-sharing group to be fully up and operational an...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

access to watson assistant analysis is available only for manager access

While i want to provide access to the business users for watson assistance as a reader/viewer. It doesnt allow them to view the analytics portion. Only a manager access can provide them this access. But giving them manager access, can risk whole p...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Access management report to show users with their permission on objects

Currently, it is not possible to pull a report who (User, Role, Group) and what access (run, read, full) has to objects (folder, datamodul, dashboard, report...).Also, last-log-in date would be a great advantage to delete inactive users.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FTM DB and Datasharing recommendation

Business continuity, High Availability, Scalability, and Performance lead the decision to go with a multi-instance topology, running more than one Financial Transaction Manager instance two or more logical partitions, sharing the same FTM Database...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Need an onmode option to terminate orphaned, tightly coupled global transactions. Onmode -Z does not address this case.

If a Java application that uses tightly coupled global transactions (such as from Geronimo / WebSphere app servers) abnormally terminates, it may leave the global transaction orphaned on the Informix database server. In this case, an onstat -G wil...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multi-View Synchronized Scrolling

In PAW book I would like to put two views from two different cubes that share the "Account" dimension for example. The one view has accounts to track expenses and the other view has drivers that determine the allocation methodology.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CP4D does't use limit ranges for the analytical runtime enviroments R and Python

As an application manager for analytics, I want computer resources to be used efficiently and cost-effectively. Not using limit range on openshift means that only a few data scientists can use the system because all computer resources are immediat...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration