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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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Enhance Obsolete Package Cleanup

Be able to feed the existing obsolete package cleanup process with a user generated list of packages for cleanup.
4 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Preview of log/text files without sub-menu navigation in Drive Explorer in PAW

When using the Rich tier, it was easy to be able to review log files simply by opening the text file (via double click) in File Explorer. Now, we have to navigate to a preview via a menu or download the file before opening. It would be great if a ...
about 20 hours ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Support JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE functions in Db2 z/OS

For updating and searching in JSON objects which are stored in Db2 tables we need the JSON functions JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE. They exist as a dummy in Db2 z/OS but are currently not supported, not documented and do not work. In Db2 ...
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
13 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

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...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Support to Geometry type field to Oracle Database

the advancement of analytical projects involving geographic data and computer vision, the customer need to replicate geometry data from Oracle to later work on their analytical repositories.
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

CDC Forced Stop on Log Deletion

I am writing to request an enhancement in the CDC (Change Data Capture) functionality to include a forced stop mechanism when logs required by the XStream API are deleted. Currently, CDC continues to wait for logs from the XStream API, which resul...
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

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...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 4 Under review

System fields in Creation View embedded grids

When configuring an embedded grid in a Task View, all the fields of the related object (which are in the users current profile) can be selected as column for the embedded grid. But when configuring an embedded grid in a Creation View, all fields ...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Drill to Leaves from Right Click Menu

In an Exploration in Planning Analytics for Excel, it would be a huge time saver for an end user to be able to drill to leaves (or a level of their choice) from a right click menu. This is a common need for users. The set editor is a little heavy ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review