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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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Sort engines by alphabetical order in the datastage console

We created an engine spdsengqlf05 before the engine spdsengqlf04 and they seem to appear in creation order (or xmeta database order) in the console indode the drop down engine list at top right of the screen.
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Allow more granular control over what SQL will result in Statistics Profiles updates

Unnecessary statistics can increase RUNSTATS collection elapsed and CPU time, sometimes exponentially, and impact BIND/PREPARE performance because the optimizer must read in all available statistics to determine what is and is not useful for each ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

InSync support to LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES

Add InSync support to LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES. Customer changed the load to SHRLEVEL CHANGE LOG YES. It worked, but the Elapsed Time increase 28% and the CPU consumption increase 821%. Is a huge difference.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Auto restart of CDC subscription upon a failure on Kafka target

The CDC kafka connector dies whenever a partition leadership changes for a topic. This is an ongoing function of Kafka and could happen during•Rolling broker restarts (to upgrade or update a config value)•A change of controller•Normal cluste...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Restore of chunks of one dbspace in parallel

In a case of an onbar restore and depending on the onconfig configuration of BAR_MAX_RESTORE setting a parallel restore of dbspaces is possible. In the case that one of the dbspaces have lots of chunks, all of these chunks will be restored sequent...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Show more job details like in Datastage Director 11.7

Would be great to see if a job is scheduled, what the schedule is, etc. from one screen like we can in 11.7
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Watson Pipeline - Allow dragging flows onto canvas

It is tedious to go into a flow node a bunch of times one at a time. On 11.7 we can just drag flows onto a sequence. This is a major time drag on CP4DAAS.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Empty date prompt

At the moment it is not possible to create a date prompt of the prompt page that has an empty value as default. It shows always the actual date when no default value is set or when the default value is empty.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

WMLA Client Python Lib

Currently, WMLA has multiple ways to use and customers have a steep learning curve. WMLA REST API supports all the different CP4D versions and platforms. To reduce the learning curve and also reduce the workload to support different ways to use WM...
about 3 years ago in Openscale 0 Not under consideration

PAW Image link from PA Cube Cell Data

Ability to store a image URL in a PA Cube Cell, and display it as an image in PAW. Ultimately, allowing the user to reelect a synchronized drop down menu, and have the image source change, and the image change with it.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration