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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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Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Install CP4D using private registry in OCP with unqualified-search-registries configuration

If you are planning the installation of CP4D, but the customer has OCP configured with unqualified-search-registries (called also "image short names" and configured in image registry via containerRuntimeSearchRegistries). So, during installation, ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Run a process based on a change in an element within a synchronization group.

Today, in order to create a guided experience for users we utilize a cube that stores user's current PAW book selections (which is then used to drive MDX subsets in the remainder of the book). It works very well except that users have to make thei...
29 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Tracking refactored code blocks as they are sliced in refactoring assistant

When slicing code blocks in the Refactoring Assistant, it would be helpful if there was some tracking so that the user knows what has been sliced previously. Even if this tracking is just for the current session or workbook, this would be helpful....

New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

INTERPRET Function for Packed-decimal Data

We have some old tables with a CHAR column where we store a record formatted by a Cobol Program. It contains a mix of display data and packed-decimal data. To use that data we have to read it in a Cobol program and interpret it using a Cobol copyb...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Log/historic record of who lock or unlock a object

We do not have information of who and when lock or unlock any object in the Openpages GRC.(using the padlock near the object code/name)And that information is important to determine when and who make this kind of modification in any object to take...
21 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Requesting an option to control whether the job (high availability load) should run or fail if an accelerator is unavailable

In today's environment, HALOAD job fails if one of the accelerators is unavailable, and it impedes table data refresh on all accelerators in the job. Allowing HALOAD job to continue execution by skipping the unavailable accelerator will mitigate t...
23 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Under review

Support Session Scheduler Memory Limits with CGROUP v2

The current Session Scheduler in LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 14 does not support having memory limits when using CGROUP v2. Please enhance it to do so.
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Fix CVE-2023-5676 vulnerability in Symphony 7.3.2 Fixpack2 (build 601711) (Support case TS015911658)

Symphony 7.3.2 FP2 (build 601711) got affected from this CVE-2023-5676 due to the dependency of OpenJ9 that is actually vulnerable. (confirmed by IBM Spectrum Symphony Support). It was investigated in IBM support case TS015911658. In our company t...
7 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review