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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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Ability to exclude PBR partitions/TS PBG that had no activity before JCL generation

Recovery Expert should have an option to exclude objects/partitions from the recovery which had no activity. Even though this would be caught by the Recover Utility, why build JCL that contains TS/Partitions which would not be recover. This causes...
4 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Remove the need to have cluster admin privileges for installation of our CP4D and Components

We have lots of clients who do not have / nor are they allowed to have cluster admin privileges. They must request to their OCP and security teams to get access to these rights. Some clients are unable to get these rights from their teams. IBM nee...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Use profile tables for local applications

We use profile tables successfully for different scenarios. In addition to remote applications, our DB2 IT infrastructure also includes local applications for which we also have profile table usage scenarios. For example, we set the explain mode f...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Ability to disable or customize stemming

Watson Discovery uses stemming to identify valid matches. Based on our experience it appears that stemming is applied in both Natural Language Queries and also Discovery Language Queries. It seems to also enforced in phrase searching. This is usef...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 13 Not under consideration

Better documentation on syscdr database

One might find it hard to understand and troubleshoot ER without proper knowledge and/or documentation. We should have better and detailed documentation about the syscdr database and its tables and views.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Pipeline Explicit Compile Option on GUI

Pipeline Compilation Option (Similar to 11.7) It's observed that there's no explicit Compile option for Pipeline (Sequencer). It helps to check the changes made to the stages are correct and compiled, before running the job. On 11.7 - it allows to...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Reject Link Support for Snowflake Stage

We are migrating from Oracle to Snowflake - where Oracle is designed to have a reject link to capture the errors, but for snowflake it's missing.
about 1 month ago in DataStage 4 Planned for future release

Component list for grouped elements in PAW

As a user I would like to see a component list of grouped elements. This helps me to navigate to the element I would like to change the properties for. Example: I have grouped a view and a text and a button. Now I would like to go to the propertie...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support WITH RECURSIVE in PrestoDB (watsonx.data)

PrestoDB in watsonx.data doesn't support WITH RECURSIVE statement which is a blocker for selling watsonx.data to some of our potential customers. It would be important to have it supported as other data lakehouse solutions support it. For example ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 1 Submitted

Python 3.9 and Runtime environments in CP4D

As we’ve mentioned in regards to CP4D upgrades there are certain features/services that gets deprecated and removed in later versions For example Python 3.9 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x?topic=overview-whats-new#whats-new__d...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Studio (Enter against watsonx.ai) 0 Submitted