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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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Allow record count limit for reference tables

We only do Archive for decommission. We like to test Optim against each of the tables to ensure we will not have any surprises when we run the full archive. It is very disappointing to run an archive and have it fail several hours into the process...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Batch or Multi Delete of Archive Requests and Access Definitions

Currently we have a method to test Optim archive against the tables that we are going to archive. To do this against Sql server, we have to take the Access definition and archive request and generate one per table. This causes a large number of it...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Add invisible index

Add the possibiltity to set an index as visible or invisible so that, when it is alter as invisible, the optimizer only takes it in account when the session ask for the index
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

External user drop-down menu has Users from Head mandator

Workaround was to remove investigate and inherit sub from internal tech users but it still displays for business users. Critical for go live
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Security

· Restrict custom host name (shared with host) · Restrict custom domain name (shared with host) · Disable container network namespace (shared with host) · Use of valid, user owned UID/GIDs (UID namespace is shared with host) · Must not attemp...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Back up the Secure Gateway from Planning Analytics Administrator

In a recent PA SaaS environment the Secure Gateway and associated Data sources disappeared from Planning Analytics Administrator. The Secure Gateway persisted as Cloud connections continued to render back to the source data bases. It would be bene...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Monitor the progress while binary image upload is running

During image upload from a local machine to target volume it takes some time depends on the network setup and local/remote connection. The amount of time it takes for the above is dependent upon how long it takes to transfer from laptop to the IDA...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Calculate classification probabilities for more than two classes

In SPSS Statistics and in open source languages (e.g. R), when you use a classification algorithm to classify more than two groups (e.g. 4 groups), the probabilities are provided for each class (not just the predicted class). This is important bec...
almost 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

RTM: limits monitoring

We identified the needs of user limits monitoring, the blimits -w output accounting & per user|host|queue|hostgroup related graphs.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Add dark theme for Watson Studio and Knowledge Catalog UI

Dark themes are popular for devs around the world, as it makes it easier on the eye when working long hours having to look at screens all the time. https://darkmodelist.com/
over 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release