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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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Enhance EXPLAIN in order to no longer need Informix server access

Currently Informix EXPLAIN generates a server side file. For developers that are working from remote machines, it becomes problematic to retrieve the explain files when they have restricted access to the Informix Server machine. There are 2 undocu...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Delivered

lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Avoid locking table at the start of a refresh

Currently DB2 z/OS Remote agent will try to lock a table, apparently to obtain the head of logs position, just before starting a table refresh. Although the lock is immediately released, in some customer environments it very hard to obtain this lo...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Display Indexes and their columns, within QMF for Workstation, for each table. RFE 122333

We have application developers who use QMF for Workstation to write and run their SQL. From time to time, we are asked what indexes exist for specific tables, and their columns. If would be nice if QMF provided this information.
over 7 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

to be able to define drill through on any other package, not only supported on default package

We developed some reports with multiple packages. We are trying to define more than 1 drill through definitions on one report. On this report, the first drill through definition is successfully created after we set the package as default. The seco...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option 12 panel (Change Capture Agent IP address) needs to allow for unplanned change of IP addresses

The current process for clients utilizing the Option 12 panel (Change Capture Agent IP address and TCP port for z/OS) requires that Replication be stopped in a controlled manner prior to updating the IP addresses. This process does not allow for d...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Please provide patch for IBM Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1 version to removbe log4j1.X and replace them with reload4j-1.2.26.jar

Please provide patch for IBM Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1 version to removbe log4j1.X and replace them with reload4j-1.2.26.jar This will replace log4j1.X in following location with reload4j-1.2.26.jar ${EGO_TOP}/perf/3.9/lib/reload4j-1.2.26.jar ${EGO...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 9 Delivered

Allow dialog tree's to be copied from one skill to another

Allow for either all or part of a dialog tree to be copied from one skill to another. Currently if you have logic implemented in one skill and want to reuse it in another skill you have to completely rebuild it. The ability to copy useful dialog t...
about 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

An AI assistant to transform generated COBOL into readable COBOL

Transform COBOL code generated by a tool such as Pacbase or RPP into code that a COBOL developer could have written.
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

Develop a collection of REST APIs and SDKs that allow to automate IBM Watson Knowledge Studio functions

Develop functions that allow to automate IBM Watson Knowledge Studio activities in Python like: 1- Upload entities and relationships 2- Upload dicts associating it to entities 3- Upload files to be annotate 4- Run annotators, specially dictionnary...
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 5 Not under consideration