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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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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.

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


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Supporting all datatypes in parquet/avro/orc file format, we are really need it on parquet for sure

As of today these “date”, “decimal/numeric”, “timestamp” data types in parquet file format not supported by Datastage 11.5 or 11.7, which is required for critical data migration project.And now we are converting above data type to different format...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

Defines VSAM clusters for the Db2 defined objects (as optional)

Reference to Case number TS002663644 This is for using "Db2 Recovery Expert disaster recovery feature - Recovering at the remote site using DB2 image copies": During Disaster Recovery tests some Db2 subsystems found indoubt and inflight threads a...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

PAC API should retry to query LSF when job details are temporarily unavailable

After the job was submitted in PAC, PAC API would query LSF to verify the job status. In some cases, when LSF was very busy, LSF would not be able to return the job status. So PAC deleted the job directory and returned error "Job job_id is submitt...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

In "new" (persona) interface attribute of type "FLAG" seen as a combobox (dropdown list), not a checkbox regardless of property

In "new" (persona) interface attribute of type "FLAG" seen as a combobox (drop-down list), not a checkbox regardless of propertydisplay_flag_attributes_as_dropdown_list=false in $TOP/etc/default/common.properties I get a advise to open an idea fro...
about 5 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Latency aware query offload decision

BdB has 2 active Accelerators with several replicated tables (meaning 2 subscriptions on CDC z/OS side). BdB already has scripts to synchronize the Load process in both Accelerators, but the replication may have different latencies. When a query o...
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

MFA is not enabled for administrative access when using local platform logins. MFA is not available in the platform

Customer is concerned about security when IBM support is logging into to their platform. Can MFA be incorporated?
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Add ability to turn off matching to intents, entities and context in strings

Currently, if Watson Assistant finds a #,@, $ in any string, it will replace the characters with an evaluation of the intent, entity or variable (respecitvely). This can be very difficult when there are strings passed back from an API that need to...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Delivered

Reporting Needs

Please provide reporting capabilities as noted below.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 1 Delivered

IDAA RLF implementation

We need RLF implementation to limit usage of IDAA resources by one user running complex/wrong query that may lead to hang IDAA
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow Resource Reservations to be Calculated at Dispatch Time

Currently, LSF allows a customer to define a very specific resource reservation for things like license as follows: -R "rusage[mylic=7:blah]" However, many customers would like to run their jobs using a range of CPU options. For example: bsub -n 2...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered