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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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Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

DISPLAY UTIL should show more detailed count for the displayed phases

We have a REBUILD IX job with a table which has 8.5 billion rows. During the rebuild DIS UTIL shows for the UNLOAD phase a higher count than 8.5 billion e.g 10 billion or more. Therefore I openend a case how could it be that this number is higher ...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Online index reorg for pureScale

Currently online index reorganization is not supported in Db2 pureScale environments and will fail with SQL1419N.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2

Set a custom palette in Cognos 11.1.1 as default for the whole dashboarding environment

Dear IBM, We would like to have the posibility to set a custom Palette which is saved under "Global" as default for the whole dashboarding environment.This is to maintain our corporate identity. Regards, Matthijs, ING Netherlands
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

dmctop for zLinux

We have several Db2 LUW running on zLinux. Because dmctop is not compatible with zLinux, we're still using db2top but would like to explore new functionalities/features offered in dmctop. Just to clarify: Currently, dmctop does not work on zLinux ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 7 Not under consideration

a standard error message on PAW for server being not available

Dear IBM, we need a standard error message that the server is not available. It would also be nice that if there are many objects in the book that we only get one message that the server is not available and not for every object in the book. Thank...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Deploy custom global palettes which are only used as conditionial palettes too

When a custom global palette is only used in a conditional palette of a visualization of a dashboard, then after export and import of the dashboard on the target system the custom global palette is missing and the conditional palette of the visual...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

allow CREATE TABLE LIKE another table and propagate table partition limits

Today, it is possible to create a PBG tablespace and then use CREATE TABLE like another table and the new table is in the new ts. CREATE TABLESPACE ZPOLCL IN DDB01P SEGSIZE 64; CREATE TABLE TPOLCL LIKE DBCCLP1.TPOL IN DDB01P.ZPOLCL; If the source...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Asynchronous API and prioritisation rules vs. synchronous requests

Due to the high shortage on GPU and the very high prices of those pieces of hardware, clients wants to optimize genetive AI queries by: Maximising GPU utilisation over time Maintaining the best quality of service, in particular latency and token t...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

add more columns for job export

from job details view, we can export current in file, but the list of avail columns of the RTM settings -> job export view is limited compared to what we can display in the job detail view and also what's avail in the DB table. Can you please e...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review