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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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WCA4Z COA should scan for //JOBLIB in JCL and use it instead of //STEPLIB to pickup profiler load module

Some of the JCL will have many steps and the user have to modify ever single step for profiler load module. If we can able to add profiler load module PDS in //JOBLIB then it will avoid coding //STEPLIB in multiple places inside the JCL

UTS PBG, SINGLETON SELECT and Lock Avoidance.

Hello Db2 for Z/OS Development. Apar PM89016 was created several years ago to implement the lock avoidance for singleton SELECTs with ISO(CS) and CD(YES) when R-scan is used, or the index that is chosen has matching predicates on all columns of th...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Prompts: variable default values

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User needing a simpler reporting experience Description:Reporting users have a need for reports that are easy to use. Prompt controls allow hard-coded default values. Sometimes the users want default values...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Standardize and allow LISTDEF PARTEVEL syntax for MODIFY STATISTICS utility

Currently MODIFY STATISTICS utility does not support LISTDEF with PARTLEVEL and throws an error like in example: LISTDEF DB2RK INCLUDE TABLESPACE DS0HUZX.S0HU37P PARTLEVEL(20) TEMPLATE COPYIC DSN(&SS..ICR.&DB..&TS..P&PA..&UQ.) ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

IF function - Account mappings Controller Web

Cognos Classic includes a feature that maps an account code from an imported to a TB code based on whether it is a Dr or Cr. This is executed through an IF function which directs the balances to the correct Cognos code based on the imported value....
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

IDR for Db2 zOs Remote Source Behavior when Changing the Dictionary in Compressed Tablespaces

When SHAREDSCRAPE LOGREADER or LOGPARSER detects a "IFI call to read log data returned a decompression error at log position.. on table .... with return code 00000008, reason code 00C90063 " stop the subscripcion. Then, we have to mark at current ...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Add functionality to setup a data module in a way that can be used by multiple clients, each of them having access to a different database

The data module works only for one of the connections, the one that was selected at the moment it is saved. We need to be prompted for the connection instead of saving the connection along with the data module. We need a way to setup a data module...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable Visual Debugger for JupyterLab environments

We have many our data scientist Python developers asking for the visual debugger tool that is now standard part of modern JupyterLab package. However the version that is currently available in CPD 4.0.5 is fairly old (Version 3.0.12). It can be...
over 3 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 1 Delivered

Read an old COBOL program and document it in english such that a business user could read and understand it

With COBOL programmers retiring, clients struggle to identify critical business logic hidden in old COBOL code. This ability is also important for refactoring old COBOL code, creating APIs and Integration points, and in deciding which capabilities...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Delivered

Need to support full OpenAI compliance. See issue https://github.ibm.com/NGP-TWC/ml-planning/issues/42880

This is a blocker for our partner, Spirent. They want to evaluate watsonx.ai inferencing relating to agent tool calling. Their inference server currently makes calls to OpenAI arch and they expected to be able to just switch out to watsonx.ai with...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Delivered