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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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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...
5 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

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...
13 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

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.
12 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

Include latest Java version for DB2 in interim Fixes and special builds

DB2 special builds that address security vulnerabilities do not include the latest available Java version for DB2. If you update Java for DB2 to the latest available version on FixCentral and later apply a special build, Java is replaced with an o...
1 day ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

JDBC Gateway import uses /tmp

On JGate the export and Import of Personal Data and Repositories and JDBC Library is an activity that needs to be done for several reasons. When importing the settings.zip file a fileuplaod* directory is created in tmp, this has caused space short...
2 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Submitted

Add a field in MON_GET_TABLE function to check whether Restrict on drop is enabled or not for a table

Missing Restrict on Drop clause while creating table can be costly! (DB2LUW) DB2 LUW provides a clause called "Restrict on drop". This clause should be used while creating a table. With Alter statement it can be disabled too. Why missing this clau...
5 days ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Submitted

Generate Microsoft Word Documents from OpenPages

It would be very useful a new functionality for users to generate Mircrosoft Word documents in OpenPages. With this functionality users could automatically generate documents using information from different objects using a Microsoft Word template...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 1 Under review

Forward, without local processing, bsub options to remote clusters

In multi-cluster scenarios, there should be no expectation that all the clusters are configured the same and/or support the same resources, slas, architectures, etc. Currently, when launching jobs with -sla, -m, and other options, the local schedu...
8 minutes ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Submitted

'KPI' visualization in PAW as in Cognos Analytics

In PAW there is the possibility to place a single cell as from an exploration on a book and thus highlight top KPIs and provide them with conditional formatting. Unfortunately, the possibilities of this visualization in PAW are limited. The functi...
about 1 hour ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Developers need the ability to interact with the LLM

Today the prompting and communication with the LLM is done for the transformation service using the ADDI meta data. Doing this, provides a very opinionated class hierarchy and code generation. This works will for customers with limited skills. But...
about 3 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted