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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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Index on Expression with Soundex Function

For most Index on Expression uses we've been able to just include the function as part of the index without any extra changes involved. Such as with the column UPPER(colname). Just create the index with that option. However SOUNDEX requires that y...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Add feature IKC integration supports Spark engine in addtion to Presto (Java, C++) engines.

From the link, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watsonxdata/2.0.x?topic=catalog-enabling-knowledgeIt says "IKC supports Presto (Java) connections only".And from the link,It says "You can define IKC governance policies for Presto (C++), and Pres...
5 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Request for Manta Data Export Format Alignment with Alation's Native Lineage Expectations

We need confirmation on how Manta exports lineage data to Alation to ensure it matches Alation's native lineage structure. Specifically, we are requesting details on: 1. Data Format: The exact format in which Manta sends data to Alation. 2. Lineag...
6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Simplify the CDC software upgrade process

Currently, we experience down-time at CDC when we need to perform maintenance on the Linux server or on the CDC agent software. Ideas we propose to increase availability of CDC are:• A replication engine should automatically continue running on a ...
6 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Maker/Checker role assignment for Business Term approval

In a business term approval process , when a maker(workflow initiator) add user/user groups as a stewards(approvers) for any business terms ,current UI displays all users without verifying whether those users has reviewer role or higher permission...
7 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

When importing data from a CSV file using update the original asset allow to only modify the columns present in the file and preserve as they were

In a catalog, when assigning terms to columns "data asset" through the import of a CSV file, then current behaviour forces you that all columns if a table exist in the file being imported. For example if a table contains 9 column and I want to ass...
7 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Importing assets, need a select all button

In the projects for the connectors that don't support MDI, we use the "Import assets" option. With CP4D today, we need to select all items one by one and this is a painful task as we have a lot of items to select. We need a "select all" button.
7 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Check SLR record and integrity

Hello , We were unable to recover DBs and related object due to the fact the SLR DB where corrupted by a migration process after apply of some PTFs. We thinks it's necessary to add a check on demand or every update of SLR database to ensure it's p...
7 days ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

zIIP Eligible Q-APPLY

Currently the SQL Queries in QREP Apply are CPU-intensive. The CPU cost of those queries cost more than our top 5 application programs combined. We recommend to make Q APPLY Queries zIIP eligible to reduce the CPU cost for QREP APPLY.
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

400 field limitation coming in from DB2

400 field limitation coming in from DB2, which is filled up with the creation of initial flows The revenue impact is in range of 5-10 Million, as the tool is not letting me use the revenue impact field, am updating in the description For additiona...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas 1 Under review