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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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Add new chunks while a backup is in progress

In huge environments with lots of data changes it is important to add more space (chunks) to a dbms at any time. Currently this is not possible while an L0 backup is running. Depending on the size of an dbms an L0 backup can take several hours. Th...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Home screen list of Projects should be sorted by most recently changed projects

Currently the list is sorted by descending date at which the projects were created. This is not particularly useful. We have many more projects than the 5 that will fit on the home page list. The last modified date of a project would be a much bet...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

DataStage would be able to authenticate using Azure active directory using Oauth2

Currently there is no option to use the password less authentication Oauth while connecting to Azure platform. the central team over here is preffering to have Oauth. Request you to consider this as a work request.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Context Window Length for the CodeLlama-34b-Instruct-hf model

CodeLlama-34b-Instruct-hf Context Window Length is currently 4096, was it originally 16,384?https://docs.endpoints.anyscale.com/supported-models/codellama-CodeLlama-34b-Instruct-hf/https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/ content/wsj/analyze-data/...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Context Window Length for the mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v01-q model

I believe the Context Window Length for the mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v01-q model was originally 32,768, but is now limited to 4096. https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/ content/wsj/analyze-data/fm-models.html?context=wx&pos=2&locale=en#mi...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

DB2 Databases on RHEL want to use Active Directory without LDAP

Hello Team , One of the largest account from Norway wanted to use DB2 Databases on RHEL want to use Active Directory without LDAP . This is stopping orginization to migrate 20+ databases from other RDBMS . Currently DB2 databases on RHEL can only ...
3 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

have NVL() and COALESCE() accept host variables like other DB engines do

See https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://community.ibm.com/community/user/datamanagement/discussion/sql-coalesce-does-not-support-sql-parameters*bm723bd631-c8e5-4c0c-a6ce-a5b977b8d2ae__;Iw!!I_DbfM1H!BBGO-0ceowioxh82YN-AlSZ0PMERaPp_Tm4yoQ_jh6qJaw9xW...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

externalize generic runstats information for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS

Currently RUNSTATS does not store generic statistical results for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS - as it does for other data types -, like numnulls etc.This information in SYSCAT.COLUMNS is used for administrative, automated tasks worldwide, but ca...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

Adding Trusted or Endorsement badge to Data Modules

We would like to have the ability for Central IT Teams to share 'Trusted or Endorsed' Data Modules (maybe add a badge?) for our end-users to either consume the data module as stand-alone data module or for using it with their custom Data Module. W...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration