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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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Support for python ibm_db driver on z/OS using z ODBC driver

The requirement is to offer connectivity to Db2 on z/OS natively by using the z/OS ODBC driver. The python driver has been enhanced to successfully compile on the z/OS platform, and basic validation and regression suite validation has been done. ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Need clearer / more detailed DESCRIPTIONS of the SMF fields written by the DB2 CDC task

A number of the Descriptions of the fields of the SMF records written by the DB2 CDC z/OS process are not clear and would benefit by providing more more and/or more detailed DESCRIPTIONS. These descriptions are currently located in the Knowledge C...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Discovery News for Japan

Though I understand that it will happen after the "full support" of WDS Japanization, please announce the plan for Discovery News Japanization. Many Japanese banks, including the three largest, requires enriched Japanese news to monitor their loan...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 7 Delivered

WHERE-Condition for DB2 Connector Stage

The DB2 connector stage should have a WHERE clause field to provide filter expressions to limit the number of rows when using "Generate SQL" = "Yes". There is a similar feature in the DRS Connector Stage.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Feature enhancement request for caching of password for LDAP plug-ins.

Currently Fiducia GAD is experiencing a bottleneck for the authenfication of DB2 connections against LDAP using the LDAP Plugin. This results in an overload of the LDAP server and in delays for creating new DB2 connections. Fiducia GAD need to cr...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Delivered

need readonly credentials for Watson

hello, we use watson conversation service and are wondering, why it is not possible to have read only API Credentails for this service. is it possible to get a user who can send messages, but who is not able to create/delete/update a workspace?
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Delivered

The REST step found a large input data item whose size actual data size exceeds the supported size limit maximum data size li

DataStage job is not able to import the file of size 350MB using xml hierarchical stage. When we tried to import the file of lesser size the response from REST API call is Success. Where as in this case the REST API response is Fail. In this case ...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

Parameter to specify the number of results return by Watson Discovery (search skill)

A customer would like to only return 1 result from Watson Discovery because the Q&A is well done and the 1st result of the correct one
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 3 Delivered

Enhance Db2 command: DISPLAY .. CLAIMERS

Display … claimers seems to hang.The wait Situation occurs when e.g.An ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN has to wait for an active statement to commit.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Enhanced labelling of functions in the TFUI

The "X" function to close tabs and to close inline guidance are incorrectly labelled. (unlabelled and "Help Button respectively). These should accurately describe the functionality.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered