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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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File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Possibility to check object state on HADR standby without ROS

Unfortunatelly some people on our HADR systems do deployments for which we are forced to set BLOCKNONLOGGED off (it's normally on on all systems). This may cause (depending on what they do) that objects on HADR standby become "destroyed" because t...
3 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Copy more than 120 elements in the Set Editor

It's not possible to copy more then 120 Elements in Set Editor. Only the currently loaded page is copied, currently 120 members, and is subject to change as we deem fit for performance reasons. We do not copy across pages.
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add ability to modify the default, or create custom, deployment configurations for pods that are created when a deployment is pushed from the watson.ai UI

Add the ability to modify the default, or create custom, deployment configuration specs for pods that are created when a deployment is pushed from the watson.ai UI For example, when troubleshooting issues with deployments, or assets that are deplo...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Unlock all periods should be moved/removed

The "unlock all periods" checkmark in "change multi period locking" menu is too easy to press on accident, it should be moved to a different menu or there should be set an additional security measure where additional access should be given to be a...
21 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
7 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review