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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

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.

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Enhancing Guidance and Documentation for Db2: Recommendations for New Features and Db2 Performance Resources.

Customer is using Db2 with 4K_DEVICE OS(z/Linux) and they were unsure whether to enable the new DB2_4K_DEVICE_SUPPORT feature and requested an improvement because they did not have enough information to make a decision. Improvement of Guidance on ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

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about 1 month ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Request for clarification of minimum supported browser versions for Software Hub

[Background]For the various versions of Software Hub, Firefox, Chrome, and Edge are supported, and the “latest available versions or the latest versions approved by the company” are recommended.On the other hand, in constrained environments such a...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Document that Currently Committed semantics is always enabled on column-organized tables.

Product:Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows v11.5 & 12.1 Requirement:Currently Committed semantics is enabled on column-organized tables. This should be described in our Document.Here is a candidate. cur_commit - Currently committed configuration...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

Certain items that fail the modulus check do not trigger an error.

FROM TS007184858 When a modulus 11 routine is applied to checks for fields 3 (account) and 7 (aux-on-us) . If the modulus routine results in the check digit of a 10, it is represented by a dash in the MICR field. For certain items that have a nume...
2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Submitted

An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

Support ARM64 Linux

We frequently use ARM64 Linux Docker Containers when we develop python applications on MacOS. The fact that the db2 drivers and subsequently the python packages do not support this makes our development workflow much harder.
12 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 4 Submitted

File Connector - Definition for Internal table Location

We need the table location to be optional when we define it as an internal table. When the location is not user-defined, the Datastage must define the create table command, but it does not need to define the location. This is important because the...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

PA Cell Comment feature enhancement

Comment is a very useful feature for PA users, especially to maximize centralised interaction. This can be a powerful feature to differentiate with other analytics product offerings. However cell commenting feature is quite limited. As business pa...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Under review