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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.

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Db2 To Provide A Way To Override Certain Implicit Table Space Parameters Default Values

TSYS has QMF applications running in 6 UAT and Production Db2 environments. There are approximately 2,600+ client users running QMF queries and procs for their applications in those Db2 environments. Many of the users are creating temporary tables...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Filter option for cubes

When developing TI processes, it often happens that I only need a few cubes from the list of all cubes. It would be a great feature if I could not only search for a single cube in the workbench, but also set a filter on them. This would allow you ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Functionality improvement for z/OS Connect EE Plugin

Is there a possibility that copy/paste functionality be added to the z/OS Connect EE Plugin. Specifically, the ability to copy data in and out of Copybooks and swaggers on the workbench/plugin. Currently, developers would need to ftp the copybooks...
4 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Support Natural Language (code) with WCA4Z: Refactor / Explain

In Brazil, we have several clients whose entire application landscape is developed in Natural. When we present the watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z), these clients show clear interest. However, the only currently applicable capability for Natur...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Resolve issues relating to quantum entangled action buttons in PAfE

Currently if I have an Excel sheet with action buttons on and I duplicate the sheet into the same workbook then to all visible cues we end up with two action buttons (AB). I can see two action buttons, one on each sheet and I can see them listed s...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Proposal for an Official CPLEX R Package for Seamless RStudio Integration

I’d like to suggest that IBM develop and maintain an official R package for the CPLEX solver. Today, R users must rely on a handful of hard-to-install third-party libraries, whereas competitors like Gurobi ship a polished “gurobi” package that ins...
4 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Define a mode more flexible for DEV or TEST environment

Possibility given in a development environment / phase to: - delete a field - rename a field - change its basic data type
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

REORG SYSTSCPY not operating correctly with SHRLEVEL CHANGE

When executing reorg shrlevel change against systscpy tablespace, it fails when there is any other utility in system, even stopped. According to explanation from IBm DB2 dev:We have discussed this with development again. It appears that this is mo...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Character length semantics instead of byte length semantics

We want to store UTF8 text data into our database but using byte length semantics is counter intuitive on the char and varchar types. We are using Fourj's Genero tool to develop our application and Genero is able to switch to character length sema...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module: when you import a package in a data module, it is considered a black box that you cannot further process (add items, hide items, add calculations, etc. We want a package import to be ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration