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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Inadequate information when a job was aborted

All of DataStage multi-instance jobs were aborted.Message "Attempting to Cleanup after ABORT raised in job " was shown in the job log without any clue to why the job was aborted. The investigation was done but the cause was unknown. The request is...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

built-in and OLAP functions are not stored in the catalogs hence SPSS modeller is facing challenges fetching

Incompatibility between using Netezza and Db2 products. Both UDFs (User Defined Function) and built-in functions and OLAPs are available in the case of Netezza, but in the case of IIAS (IBM Integrated Analytics System) / Db2 only UDF is available ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

HTML report formatting in Google Mail

Our company has changed to use Google Mail and HTML reports generated by Cognos with the content embedded in the body lose their formatting as Google Mail has this "feature" that they strip out styling that doesn't follow their rules. It would be ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make product manuals available in ePub format.

Can you please make more product manuals (specifically DB2 for z/OS) available in the ePub format? The PDF format does not work well with tablets and readers. If you zoom to get a legible font size, then you must scroll left, right, left, right on...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

current IMS log reader TAPE contention behavior needs to be improved during change stream activation

Please refer to the PMR 02209,69G,760 and APAR PI71320 submitter page.--- start of the APAR quotation ---The current IMS log reader VTS contention behavior needs to be improved. Contention occurs when the IMS log reader attempts to access an archi...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The attributes after digestion of document for different connectors should be same

If you use IBM crawler today to crawl sharepoint, salesforce or public sites, the attributes in the document are not standard. At least the attributes in the query result. Take for example the URL property for public site, I need to read in metada...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Designer - Fields for Siebel Business Objects or Components returning wrong values

This issues has been experienced on both InfoSphere Information Server 11.5 and 11.7.1.1. After submitting an IBM PMR to try to resolve the issues the final response from IBM Support was: Our Engineering team reviewed the issue and have advised th...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

db2 luw restore to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync()

db2 luw restore performance is very slow. The problem was identified and recommended solution is to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync() From: David Sciaraffa Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 6:57 PMTo: R...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Truncate table partiton

1. many customers expect to truncate a table partition without first detach and then drop, and finaly add a new partition with the same definition as the detached partition, because they may design their range partition as "Jan, Feb, ... Dec" with...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration