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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 similar feature to DB2 - Oracle Database, Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature

Oracle Database has Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature to minimize/eliminate downtime through schema versioning. It would be very useful for DB2 to have a similar feature to allow adding or modifying new or existing data structures without d...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage

Using Datastage 11.5.0.1 "File Connector Stage", We ask to implement the mapping from an input field defined as Decimal (17,2) to a target avro field defined as "type":["bytes","null"],"logicalType":"decimal","precision":"17","scale":"2" into the ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Adding enableWLB via command db2cli writcfg add -dsn <alias> -parameter "enableWLB=true"

As discussed in PMR 01458,999,724 adding enableWLB parameter with "db2cli writecfg add..." is a known limitation.Could you please remove this limitation. Workaround is to edit XML-file db2dsdriver.cfg manually.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Provide option to use the full dataset when advanced analytics only uses sampled data

The problem: Users can receive fast pattern warnings that indicate analysis was based on sampled data AND that there is no reliable predictive relationship. These users would be interested to see if the sampled data is representative of all data i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

WKC search engine enhacements (including API) for it to be more Google-like

After implementing the WKC in CP4D we've found out that business users don't quite like the search in the UI. They said that they expected some sort of Google-like solution. As we're in Russia, users expected an automatic transliteration (the sear...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

LSF Explorer installation permission issue

The default permissions with which Explorer server and embedded Elasticsearch is installed is hard coded to lsfadmin user and root group even after keep another user install.config. We want that the install area ownership to a user other than lsfa...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Non-Monetary Message Types

In RFRFs - The Origination, Destination and Amount information are appearing blank or null. The business line is seeking this information to be populated from the corresponding Credit Transfer.
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Not under consideration

Lifecycle Management Server Mappings for Local Install

Provide the capability to map different environments (like Dev and Prod) in the Source and Target mappings of Lifecycle management so objects can be migrated between different PAW environments within a Planning Analytics Local install.
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Avoid WKC quality project blank due to some certificate expiry

Asset list in WKC quality project gone/blank suddenly someday. Feel like whole system done. Customer been told the reason is : some certificate will be expired unpredicted someday between 10-13 months, not sure which day. Could we give enough time...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Column header on excel extractions

The extraction to Excel function directly from IBM PA is heavily used, so that the pivot function can be used to in Excel for better flexibility. However, the output of the extract does not show the dimension in the header of the columns, which me...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration