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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 alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Implement SQRRT (square root) math function for Calculations

Calculations allow to perform some math functions (e.g. AVG, SQR, ...) but do not implement the square root math function. When performing calculations for risk ratings, the function would be extremely useful.
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Operational Risk Management OpenPages module - Inquiry Regarding Control and Evaluation Features Update

LA POSTE client expresses the desire to have the ability to conduct sampling checks through control grids and evaluations. In the absence of being able to duplicate the control grid for each sample to be checked, we have explored the possibility o...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Import PoweDesigner VIEWS in .pdm files

For Teradata Physical Data Models in PowerDesigner, the VIEWS are very important. When importing these Physical Data Models into IBM Knowledge Catalog, the VIEWS are not imported. All the data modeling tools that we know (PowerDesigner, ER Studio,...
4 months ago in Data Lineage 0 Under review

Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
25 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Under review

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
6 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Under review

Allow workflow Validation to be run as system Admin like Operations

This is useful in cases where we have validation place on parent and children's object but logic user do not have accedd to them.
27 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Replicate a table with XML data type from IBM i (iseries AS400)

In the last few days we have had a situation in some customer with SAP on IBM i running, in which due to the characteristics of modernization of the database to adapt it for the use of new technologies, we have seen an increase in the requirement ...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Support JMX metric Statistics for Kafka Consumer for IBM TCC Library product

It would be most helpful for Kafka performance tuning if there was a JMX metrics report for the Kafka consumer to analysis JMX stats for latency report. Could we dump the JMX values to a file the user provides as part of the IBM TCC Library API? T...
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Enhancing DataStage Monitoring and Debugging Capabilities

One of the critical aspects of monitoring, tuning, or debugging individual jobs or an entire DataStage project is to clearly understand which database system activities are triggered by which stage in a specific DataStage job within a particular D...
11 days ago in DataStage 1 Under review