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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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New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Attribute Hierarchies - Define at Parent levels

In Planning Analytics Workspace a feature called attribute hierarchies allows users to treat attribute values as a separate dimension in a cube view. This is nice, but at the moment this feature only works on attributes for base dimension elements...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

JSON support using built in functions instead of UDF

JSON functions in DB2 are implemented as UDF functions and it is understood from IBM that there are performance implications for large volume processing using JSON UDF functions. We would like to request IBM to support JSON functions as Db2 built ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RFE to support more than one Workflow parameter values in common.properties file.

Hi Team, This RFE is to support more than one Workflow parameter values in common.properties file where we have vendor plugin related properties along with other property files. The reason being there might be some OOTB capabilities which refer...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Custom Property Field value needs to read from a database and be indexed alphabetically

The functionality for a Custom Attribute is to connect to a database and then read data from a table and display as a drop down. Also it must be indexed so that the user can search by typing (e.g., suppose a user wants to search for "Alex Brown" f...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE Not recorded in SYSCOPY

LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE utilties should be recorded in SYSCOPY
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Need the custom crawler sample with Python

Currently the custom crawler sample code is Java only. My customer is requesting the Python one for their ease of use and productivity.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Filtertext should be formatable

The query filter text object should have style and format properties like other text elements.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Classic CDC to enable keep alive messages on the CDO connection

If there is no data changes to flow to the target , Classic CDC will leave the CDO connection idle. Something in the network path appears to be ending these connections such that when they are used after a period of inactivity z/OS Communications ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

PAW Member names need ability to used Default Alias

We need to be able to set the Dimension Members on the right to a default Alias.We have many code names at the element level that are not user friendly or have changed. So showing the base code in the members does not work.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration