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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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The REST step found a large input data item whose size actual data size exceeds the supported size limit maximum data size li

DataStage job is not able to import the file of size 350MB using xml hierarchical stage. When we tried to import the file of lesser size the response from REST API call is Success. Where as in this case the REST API response is Fail. In this case ...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

Extend SessionScheduler being able to manage small parallel application (size up to one node)

Today we have applications/software running in serial mode via session scheduler (runtime per task <<10min) with up to 10000 tasks. These applications/software will migrate to parallel usage soon and we want to keep the SessionScheduler func...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Run LSF file IO operations within the container.

LSF jobs using containers depend on mounts within the container. These mounts are not available on bare metal where LSF runs file operations. The bare metal dependency means that LSF file related operations, -o, -f, -E, -Ep, etc. will not have acc...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

support queue level container parameters

We need to be able to use the EXEC_DRIVER mechanisms in a way beyond bapp, as there is only one bapp allowed in a job submission. Many of our automated (and locked) job flows already request a bapp, so they cannot use another bapp.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

When data is scanned using Quick Scan, customer would like to see options to be able to publish the data into a specific catalog and not the default catalog

Data Security Officer would like to restrict access to certain asset information to a group or division of people. Being able to publish discovered assets into catalog would be a big step towards achiveing zoning.
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Need clearer / more detailed DESCRIPTIONS of the SMF fields written by the DB2 CDC task

A number of the Descriptions of the fields of the SMF records written by the DB2 CDC z/OS process are not clear and would benefit by providing more more and/or more detailed DESCRIPTIONS. These descriptions are currently located in the Knowledge C...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Enable 'include' function to reduce lsb.* file complexity

We have very huge user group (due to hierarchical fairshare) configurations in lsb.users that are generated by tools, and would like to use something like an include statement to add them to the main file.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Function inside Planning Analytics that will track user login

Function inside Planning Analytics that will track user login and accordingly System administrator should be able to block the user login who have not logged inside Planning Analytics for X number of days. This will help to extract the dormant u...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Support encrypted traffic between Db2 client and Db2 server using TLSv1.3

Latest version of Db2 v11.5.7.0 only has TLSv1.2 support as maximum protocol version to encrypt traffic between Db2 client and Db2 server and even this protocol is disabled by default. By default there are enabled currently insecure protocols TLSv...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Saving a package based data module takes minutes

When trying to create a data module based on a big FM package it takes 2-3 minutes for the data module to save. This should be improved so that saving the data module is faster. Support assumed that it could be the smarts service that takes a long...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Delivered