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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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WA2WA Communication

Allow a WA instance (A) to delegate a query to another WA instance (B). Propagate response from B to A. No impact on UI, there should be only one UI. Optionally add a Knowledge Harvesting capability to learn from instance B. Example, on repeat que...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

how to reduce the number of generated yarn applications for hive connector stage

Several times of yarn applications is generated when using the hive connector stage in a DS job.For example, we have 6 hive connectors in one of our ds jobs.When the process node in default.apt is set to 2, about 18 yarn applications will be gener...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER INDEX to have MINPCTUSED option (Online)

Allow online ALTER INDEX ... MINPCTUSED %;
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Email notification for password expiration

The current version of Db2 Warehouse on Cloud supports the enforcement of password policies and setting a duration of password validity before expiration, however there is no option to send email notifications to users to warn them that their pass...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Add a builtin table function that splits a character string

Db2 12 adds the useful LISTAGG function that aggregates a set of string values into a single string.It would be good to have an inverse: a table function SPLIT that takes a string and a separator, and returns a table of string values.The signature...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Export a report filtered results to excel

I need to export a results froma a html report where I have applied some filter on a results. I don't want to submit again the report to execute in excel format, because I lose my filter
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize images on the Planning Analytics Workspace portal

We would like to change the image of the Icon when a new Workbook is created. currently its a blue background with random graphs
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Config option to raise an SQL error on inserting a too long string value

Inserting of any string value should not result with a silent automatic truncation of a given value and with an OK transaction result status. Exactly this is the default DBMS behaviour for non-ANSI databases.One solution for this could be the intr...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration