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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Enable HDR Secondary to perform archives

Modify HDR code to add a state whereby the secondary server can be allowed to perform ontape and onbar archives. Whether the server can remain in secondary mode or must be changed to an intermediary mode are both acceptable options, as long as the...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add session-level reset for monitoring metrics in the MON_GET* table functions

There is no way to reset the metrics reported in the MON_GET* table functions. Please add functionality for resetting these at the session level, much like "RESET MONITOR" does for snapshot monitoring. Yes, there are a dozen ways to code this your...
over 8 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Allow REORG INPLACE and modify REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables

Beginning Db2 v10.5, REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables also implicitly performs sparse extent consolidation before freeing empty extents ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=enhancements-reorganization-make-table-maintenance-easier ). Ho...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Multi-Agent System to Automate the Selection and Evaluation of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models

The proposal is to create an ecosystem of agents in Watson Orchestrate capable of working collaboratively to analyze structured and unstructured data, identify business objectives, and automatically select the best Machine Learning or Deep Learnin...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Needs more information

Planning Analytics Workspace backup not returning error exit code

Problem Description It seems that the PAW backup.ps1 utility generates a success exit code (0) even when the backup fails. For example, if the PowerShell command is unable to complete a backup because its file size limitation has been reached, a...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support movement of files in Git

Followup from TS019921735, TS016610424 and HD-6863. Background: Our users use Manta to scan SAS code or IFPC files stored in various Git repositories to build lineage. This is very convenient because we can block access to users to the backend (be...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Issue command DISPLAY DB CLAIMERS on a LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE when DRAIN fails in UTILINIT phas

We faced situations in which LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE jobs abends with S04E and Reason Code 00C200EC during UTILINIT phase. When this abends occurs, LOAD was unable to DRAIN all the claimers, once it is SHRLEVEL NONE, before beggining LOAD data into tab...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

If PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler.

When clients want to see the relationship btw PL1 and IMSDB, it cannot shown. Since if PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler. Background: In our client's current PL/I program, Program Communication Blocks (PCBs) are ...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Time Dimension Options

Performance Modeler has a wizard for generating a time dimension. It allows you to select period levels (i.e. Year, Quarter, Month, Week and Day). When generating a days dimension, it automatically knows how many days each month should have. Creat...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration