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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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Add option to DCLGEN utility to support conditional compilation based on whether the SQL option is used

Some non-Db2 programs use the member created by the DCLGEN utility as a copy member because they are processing a file with the same layout as the COBOL portion of the DCLGEN member. The DCLGEN generated member contains a DECLARE TABLE statement, ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove the limitation in ISTOOL for Extension Mapping Document import for CP4D

We opened a ticket for the error (file.csv exceeds 5120KB, skipping it...) we were getting when we tried to import extension mapping document using istool in IIS 1.7.1 (see ticket # TS012233188). IBM tech told us that this is a limitation for ISTO...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Improving RapidJobUpdateTool

Hello My company doesn't want to use DB2 and Oracle anymore, we are moving to PGS. We have a lot a datastage jobs using those DBMS. I would like to automatise the swicth from a DB2 stage to an ODBC one but RapidJobUpdateTool doesn't have ODBC in t...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Locked FastMap Export

Customer is expecting FastMap export option with feature to lock selective columns. As auditor has to perform tests on daily basis, using fast map is friendly option, however fast map comes with default fields, where user can make any mistakes, or...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Drill through to Workspace Advanced Including Filters

As in request ID 70197, 70261 and 70004 I would like to see filters passed on drill through. I would also like the drill through to have the option of opening in a relational model in Workspace Advanced.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Closing streams

A very useful functionality would be to be able to close streams with a shortcut (usually ctrl + w). Currently I have to right click on each streams then "close the streams" it's not user friendly.For Mac, Windows also.
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Add IF NOT EXISTS logic to ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT

alter table mytab add constraint if not exists foreign key .... alter table mytab add constraint if not exists primary key .... alter table mytab add constraint if exists drop constraint ....
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Clear instructions/information panel on using Document Classifier trained with custom dictionaries

Document classifiers are extremely valuable in programmatically sorting document types based on its content. The document classifier in WDS can be trained solely on parts-of-speech or in combination with additional assets such as custom dictionari...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve ADD/MATCH

Since the dawn of time, ADD CASES and MATCH FILES have required that string variables have the same length across files. This is a frequent problem., especially when the data originated in Excel. It would be very helpful if this limitation were re...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

allow LDAP based db2 instance user for PureScale instance creation

Right now instance creation and maintainance in PureScale (db2icrt/db2iupdt) requires that the db2 instance user is local, i.e. has an entry in local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. This expose a huge problem for LDAP based environments like ours whe...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration