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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.

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Copy&Paste of reporting elements: Possibility to select whether references should be copied as well or not

When copying elements (lists, cross tabs, queries) all references will be copied as well and when a query exists already a new one is inserted with a number added (1, 2, 3). This is not always suitable, and the user should have the possibility to ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REPAIR CATALOG TABLESPACE command for xml table space

We are working with OBJECT_CREATE_FORMAT=EXTENDED and with UTILITY_OBJECT_CONVERSION=NOBASIC for a long time without any problem. In the last time we began to work with these parameters in other DB2's that include many tables with XML columns. The...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Hide merged members

We have many entities in our database that have a high volume of merged records that make it difficult to review tasks for remediation. The work around is to scroll up and down and remove records from the records attribute section one at a time or...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Allow LISTDEF to be used by REPAIR where appropriate at partition level that includes a range (1:50)

Allow LISTDEF with REPAIR, such as turning off AREO* (NOAREORPENDSTAR) at partition level. This would include a from partlevel to to partlevel. This would reduce the number of REPAIRs that need to be generated.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Password less authentication or API to update password for CDC engine and Management Console

We need the following enhancements on CDC - (1) CDC engine for IBM iseries needs to support password less authentication like kerberos, or have an API that allows password to be updated. (2) CDC Management console, need to support password less au...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Needs more information

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enabling Watson Orchestrate to analyse, optimizing the decision making, and perform the the optimized Parallel Processing

Enabling Watson Orchestrate to analyse, optimizing the decision making, and perform the optimized parallel processing, Let us call it "Watson Orchestrate for Parallel Processing " or " Watson Orchestrate Symphony" for Heterogeneous Computing by us...
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

Enabling Watson Orchestrate to analyse, optimizing the decision making, and perform the optimization in the resource management of the Spectrum Scale Storage and GPU Direct Memory

Sooner or later, Cognitive computing will optimize the operations and resource management of the Storage and Memory," Watson Orchestrate for Storage and Memory Resources Management", logically we can consider it the evolution of the Spectrum Scale...
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

Add the BPMN 2.0 Intermediate Timer Event to the list of supported BPMN objects

You should consider and add this crucial element of the BPMN standard into the product. We use webMethods Designer to create BPM Processes. In nearly every process we require an intermediate timer event. With our current version (webMethods 10.5) ...
over 1 year ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

Forward, without local processing, bsub options to remote clusters

In multi-cluster scenarios, there should be no expectation that all the clusters are configured the same and/or support the same resources, slas, architectures, etc. Currently, when launching jobs with -sla, -m, and other options, the local schedu...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration