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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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Optimistic concurrency in the BigQuery write modes

ibm engineering has asked WMT to add an enhancement request for Optimistic concurrency in the Google BigQuery write modes
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow AUTHID translation for a trusted connection with a trusted context from DB2 z/OS to a remote DB2 LUW subsystem

A DBA for client that I support is requesting the ability to allow AUTHID translation for a trusted connection with a trusted context from DB2 z/OS to a remote DB2 LUW subsystem when SECURITY_OUT=P and USERNAMES=S IN SYSTEM.IPNAMES table and TYPE=...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

LOAD utility, which run towards to a partition table, should allow other query processing insert/update to other partitions.

The requests for the enhancement of DB2 LOAD utilities so as to run LOAD utility in a specific partition table during the other query processing like select/update/insert/delete on the other partitions in one partition table.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Improving QREP online operation

ABC(Agriculture Bank of China) have implemented A-A based on QREP. Due to its huge number of data volume, the maintenance related to A-A is extreme complex. The more easy operation of QREP the more maintenance convenience.1. In some case, certain ...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Support column level filters in SQL

LAT supports filtering on column level in detail reports, but the filter criteria is coded in a proprietary syntax that does not support SQL constructs (e.g. IN list). We use it to specify column level filters in SQL Syntax in our current tool. We...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

In PAW to have the ability to migrate content between different databases having different names

Our dev, test, and production evironments have environment specific names for each database. So between exporting content from one environment and importing into the next environment, we have to manually update the database names. This can be labo...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

As an administrator I should be able to control environment parameters

As an administrator, I should be able to control parameters to environments: I should be able to give default parameters (setup reservation : define the number of UC and memory allocated).Also, it would be even better if I could setup rules such ...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Grid view within the task view: a better list of options button

The list of options button appears as 3 dots which is not obvious nor intuitive for users. We could potentially label the dots as 'options' or something along those lines.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration