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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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Dashboard - Set Fit Page to default On

In Dashboard, users can set the Fit Page property to On so that the dashboard does not scroll. It would be convenient if this property could be defaulted to On. Users are calling in because CA Dashboards are not fitting to the screen anymore. It i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Statistical calculations in Dashboard does not work

It was found that the statistical calculations like 'median' for Summary is not working in Dashboard. This is with reference to case created TS005791544 with IBM Support. The feature is available but fails to summarize correctly.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Spark job will be fail when resource quota not enough

There are lots of Spark Job to run, if a job start and the resource quota is reach maximum, this job will fail. You will wait for job result to know is quota is not enough or you need to check quota every time when you submit a job. For AlibabaClo...
over 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Improve existing ZOMBI handling with regards to both SBD and MBD process flows

It will reduce the persistence of ZOMBI jobs in LSF to a shorter time period. Here are the two areas that need improvement. 1) Currently, even though the SBD daemons may be running on a host, a job will remain in ZOMBI status until the SBD is rest...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Lock hashing algorithms of DB2 and XES are incompatible. Leads to excessive False Contention and high IRLM CPU for GLM xfer

There is an anomaly between DB2 and XES hashing algorithms which means that a 4-byte DB2 (unique) lock hash value passed to XES may not be hashed to a unique value by XES unless the LTE size is set excessively high (1G). I understand that DB2 hash...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Graphs by MetricStudio is not accessable by users of other domain in AD - PMR 27494,100,83

in a global Cognos BI platform with users accessing via different domains and therefore different gateways as e.g. http://***:80/cognos/cgi-bin/ http://***:80/cognosINT/cgi-bin/
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for columns with names longer than 30 characters

DVM currently fails when attempting to create virtual tables over source tables with column names longer than 30 characters. DBMS's including Postgres, Oracle and DB2 LUW allow for longer column names.
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

on DB2 LUW , Create all indexes on nicknames, including those with key greater than 1024 bytes

When I create a nickname on a remote table with an index and the index key is greater than 1024 bytes, the index spécification is not created on the local database : There is no warning for this when the nickname is created, nothing in db2diag.log...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

CDC support for mysql MGR

We used to plan a replication/migration from DB2 to mysql, but failed since CDC did not support mysql MGR topology, and that delayed our plans. Hope this will be achieved soon.
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration