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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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allow REPLACE function to accept empty string

The "source-string" for the REPLACE function currently cannot be an empty string, it throws an error. But I can't see any logical or functional difficulty in just applying the replace logic: the "search-string" is not found, therefore the source-s...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Open to allow WMLA user to add their own algorithms

Our team would like to try WMLA EDT to train model using most up to date, state of the art algorithm. However, these algorithm is not supported by WMLA. It will be best if WMLA allows users, who are data scientist, developer, or machine learning e...
about 5 years ago in Openscale 4 Future consideration

iAdvize Service Desk integration

iAdvize is a customer messaging platform which helps to engage the conversation through digital channels. They have unique capabilities like ibbu an on-demand pool of experts. I could be great to have an out-of-the-box connector through Watson Ass...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Functionality already exists

Support for xAPI (Expereince API)

The ability to send xAPI statements to an LRS would open a great opportunity of using Watson Assistant as a learning development tool. This is a whole new area and very much interested by the L&D industry.
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Optimizer should account for bufferpool hit-ratio when estimated page access time.(RIMS)

In PMR 00962,7TD,000, Goldman Sachs had a scenario where optimizer was choosing a more expensive HSJN over a less expensive NLJN. Shu Lin summaries the problem well: 'In terms of CPU cost and number of IOs, we correctly estimate that NLJN is bette...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

MQTs with REFRESH IMMEDIATE need to allow more flexible definitions(RIMS)

1. MQTs with REFRESH IMMEDIATE need to allow more flexible definitions. To make MQTs feasible for an environment where quick ingest and low data latency is a priority, they cant be REFRESH DEFERRED because of the excessive locking that occurs du...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 should check if there are any errors in the history file for(RIMS)

Headline cont... the relevant backup before the restore operation is started Description: Customer canceled/aborted a backup (kill against the vendor process) of his database after some hours (the reason is not relevant for this problem). The inco...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF) should be supported by (RIMS)

Headline cont... DB2 9.7 to stop/start the instances instead of using db2fmcd/db2fmd. Description- Following is a request I received a few months ago. I did than classify the request as one that would never happen, but it turned out customer insis...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Single Apply Button for all filters on the Global Filters area in Cognos Workspace

Our users have an issue using the Dashboard developed using Cognos workspace 10.2. There are individual "Apply" buttons for each global area filters and users are tired of click each and every one of them. Need an option to have one single click A...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Archive or De-activate a Node in Dialog

If I'm missing current functionality, please forgive me, but I find this ability very helpful in other systems I've used. It would be nice if there was an option for each dialog node (where current functions like "move", "duplicate", "delete" are ...
about 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration