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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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Entity Identifier converted to String in Match360 Data Explorer to allow for complex searches

We've come across the limitation in Master Data Explorer's advanced search, where entity identifier with a condition of "starts with" or "ends with" breaks upon searching. The reason - as explained by Master Data Explorer Development Team - is tha...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration

Add flag field to IFCID 402 to indicate when a reset has occurred.

In Db2 Version 13 and V12 (with APAR PH50729), Db2 resets IFCID 402 statistic counters immediately if the warning or exception threshold for the associated profiles is changed when you issue a START PROFILE command. It’s difficult to tell if the c...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for "every" in the "alter table add partition" to add multiple partitions

The "create table" statement supports this syntax to create a table with multiple partitions: CREATE TABLE DOCUMENTS ( ID INTEGER, CONTENTS VARCHAR(10)) PARTITION BY RANGE (ID)(STARTING 1 ENDING 1000 EVERY 100) This will create a table with 10 par...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Non-root Installation

Currently installation as non-root user is not possible. One of the first checks during installation is whether the logged in user is root.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add profile counter for number of long transactions since most recent "onstat -z"

Rollback most of the time is a time and resource consuming action. We would like to be able to monitor how many long transactions we (just a simple profile counter), as currently it is not easy and accurate on how to determine the amount of long t...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow Chore to be scheduled Once

In the scheduling options of a chore I'd like to be able to schedule a chore to run one time only. At present, I can only set it to run on a repeat of 0-999 days so you can mimic the behaviour as long as you remember to switch off the schedule wit...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Marking range partitions in a table as readonly

Need feature at range-partition level granularity to mark it read-only so that no update/insert/delete can be performed on a particular range-partition. And by default (when not marked as readonly) all partitions carries table level permissions.Pe...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Please add Firstlsn to the MON_GET_CONNECTION table function

The firstLSN is only available using db2pd. It is the ninth column reported from: db2pd -transactions It does not appear to be anywhere else. I would like to be able to query it using the MON_GET* table functions.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Schedule GitHub Pushes

We have adopted the use of GitHub with change control in Workspace. Across our IT group, we have implemented continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools to run automated test suites, and automated deployments. We would like to be able...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

adding a question prompt like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude would be wonderful and functional instead of 3 months of stonewalling us with a million options NOT A PROMPT AND JUST A WASTE OF TIME...

adding a question prompt like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude would be wonderful and functional instead of 3 months of stonewalling us with a million options NOT A PROMPT AND JUST A WASTE OF TIME...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration