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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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New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value.

Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value (WITH DEFAULT). Customer currently sets a dummy default value, which they drop afterwards.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions higher than 11 (i.e.12,13)

According to the IBM, the following document is available online in regards to DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions, it only has until SLES Version 11: http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compa...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automate Service Framework Task creation. Ability to export and import Service Framework Tasks definitions

Is it possible to export service framework configurations from one environment such as Dev and import those same configurations into a new environment such as SIT? The task of doing this manually from env to env is tedious and time consuming as we...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

usability of the new IBM Watson tts demo site

When we did the project "spaceships with opinions" the IBM Watson tts-demo site was a great help. So I feel I have a responsibility to tell you how I think the new site is failing. https://www.ibm.com/demos/live/tts-demo/self-service/home It works...
almost 4 years ago in Speech Services 3 Not under consideration

Upload Historical rates

Our client would like to translate cash flow line items at a more accurate rate than just using the M, D or B rate. In order to provide them the functionality we would make use of the historical rates table. Their concern is that head office shoul...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Collect I/O per LSF job as a resource to be reported to RTM

As number of CPUs per machine rises, the I/O to disk rises proportionally, but the bandwidth to the disk generally does not scale. We have found that in high-cpu machines, the system can grind to a near halt due to overload of the disk I/O. We can...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Allow TAPEUNITS to use virtual tape drives

The COPY utility utilizing templates allows for TAPEUNITS(0) to let COPY decide the appropriate number of physical tape drives to use. If all tape drives are virtual, copy will only use one tape drive. This requires hard coding TAPEUNITS(n) to get...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make lsadmin/badmin accept "yes" and "no" as answers

Questions asked by `lsadmin` and `badmin` (and maybe other administrative LSF commands) only accept "y" and "n" as answers. "yes" and "no" are not accepted but should be
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Additional capabilities for tracking and managing distributed applications.

Be able to Tag IP addresses and other identifiers to group them together and provide the capability to watch or capture activity /errors/issues by the tag.Also, add currentPackageset (Collection) as an identifier for SQL captures. Tagging would al...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow option to save a view as an MDX view or standard view when using cube viewer in PAX or PAW

With both PAX and PAW we are able to create a new cube view by opening the cube viewer and clicking the save icon. Clicking this save icon will publish the view for later reuse. When views are created by this cube viewer within PAW/PAX the views a...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration