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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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Commands should apply to result set only when using filtering

When using a command or function on a set of filtered objects, we would like to apply the command or function on the resultset, not the initial set.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

It should be chooseable OUTER of INNER JOIN in DV.

In DataVirtualization, we can create join view. But we can create only inner join view by using GUI. We know we can create outer join view by using SQL editor. But it is not acceptable from our customer.
about 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

As of version 11.7 DataStage runtime do not generate events to be consumed by Event Framework

As of IIS11.7 DataStage runtime do not generate events to be consumed by Event Framework . The purpose of this enhancement request is to have DataStage jobs to automatically generate desired Kafka events and to be added to the InfosphereEvents top...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable Cp4d to run on AWS kubernetes

We are WEX users and now exploring CP4D. As we have very big environment, currently WEX manages all WEX components. Deploying CP4d adds another Openshift in addition RHEL. So the team has to support Cp4d, Openshift, RHEL and al add-ons. We are pla...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

No logging available for troublehsooting

With lot of excitements, we deployed CP4D on Openshift on-premise. Unfortunately we are uncovering issues one by one. One of key issue is troubleshooting. Example when discovery crawl shows no document, there is no information about why no documen...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Support spanned unload of XML columns

Although the documentation and the error message content if you try to do this suggests that this is possible, it isn't. We would like XML to be supported with spanned unloads just as LOB columns are today (and have been supported in the core IBM ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Allow bjobs command to show the pre and post exec exitStatus/exitCode information

Right now, we require bhist to get any detail on pre/post exec error codes, it would be nice if we could get this from the job record via bjobs vs. bhist. bhist in very large environments is a non-starter for obtaining this status information.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

The ability to use OCP console for cloud pak for data project administration

I have use of OCP console in my dev and sit deployments running in Azure for dashboard monitoring and would like the use of this capability on CPDS
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Fields too short

Some fields in Query Monitor are shorter than in SMF-records and in Omegamon tables. We use these fields to identify the origin from dynamic SQL and data is longer than the fields in QM allow: WORKSTATION_TRAN 32 (Omegamon CLIENT_TRANSACTION 255) ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Display loading bar instead of grid lines while opening reports in PAW

Our Team uses Cognos TM1 for Planning and Reporting purpose. we have lot of reports which we access via TM1 Web. Recently we have migrated to Planning Analytics but in PAW we get grid lines before loading the report. There is delay of around 10 to...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration