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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.

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Add varchar(max) and nvarchar(max)

We are frequently moving data between MS-SQL server and Db2. When data are moved from Db2 to MS-SQL there are no issues. But when data are moved from MS-SQL to DB2 we have frequent problems with varchar and nvarchar data types for data types where...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Index artifacts term relationships in global search

At the moment only Assets relationships with terms are returned in the global search. However we have relationships between governance rules, policies, classifications, data classes, reference data with terms that are not returned. We will need th...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

Support for complex operators such as NEAR and BETWEEN

Our business clients currently use Watson Explorer and are able to execute queries that include NEAR and BETWEEN to find very specific documents. This functionality is not currently available in Watson Discovery and is a very big issue for our bus...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

ODM iLog Rule Decision Engine to include a wrapper for class structure to xml structure

Today we see performance issues with using the iLog rule stage with core engine mode, dynamic XOM and Hierarchal stage creating the xml payload inputs and outputs from the ilog rules stage. Currently this conversion is extremely slow. Instead, we ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Change ddl of table with data capture changes on

Because we use in our env IDEP. IDEP needs datacapture on to get all U/I/D actions on table to be promoted to the anther env (where IDEP is connected to). Sometimes we hit issues that we forgot that datacapture is on the table , and in the change ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Online Schema Change Support for AOT

There is Online Schema Change Support for both repliacted and non-replicated Accelerator Shadow Tables but AOTs. If customer would like to change the schema of an AoT, it should be removed/added/loaded again. It causes business outage and a lot of...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Open all Forms as a single report

A command to generate all applicable Forms in one go as a report. This will help the review process.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Company-wise allocation of individual account codes in the Group Journals

Company-wise allocation of individual account codes in the Group Journals
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Spark UI ports blocked by firewall due to randomized ports in IBM Spectrum Conductor2.5.0

SPARK UI ports are being blocks by firewall since ports are assigned randomly starting from 18480 instead of 18080 as specified by documentation. Also, In IBMSC Jupyter notebook, SPARK UI port in sparkcontext is assigned randomly and is blocked by...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Functionality already exists

DOEADMIN members should have the ability to review all Pull requests

The members mapped to DOEADMIN (Super User) group should be able to view and manage the pull requests raised by any team. The reason being 1. In general they are DBAs/ Sys progs. They should have a view on the pull requests irrespective of the te...
over 1 year ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration