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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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missing parm for forceFullReload (or detectChanges="PARTITION") in IDAA loader

According to Stored Procedure Guide V7.1.7 :The forceFullReload attribute is deprecated because detectChanges="PARTITION" withoutpartition list has the same effect as forceFullReload="false", and omitting the detectChangesattribute and a partition...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance GSLA to enable in-queue preemption

The Guaranteed SLA system allows sharing of Resources defined by ServiceClasses. We would like to use that to allow two or more groups to pool and share compute slots, wherein they typically unused slots would be available to all of the groups. Th...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Share and embed option for Poweplay reports and cubes

We have large base of powerplay users who access powerplay reports/cubes from Microsoft SharePoint site. In Cognos 10, we had a feature which helps us to provide links to the powerplay reports. But this functionality is missing in Cognos Analytics...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bring back "Insert" and "Collapse all" option to menu on data items

In previous versions of CA (eg. 11.0.6) we had "Insert" and "Collapse all" options when right clicking a data item in the "Query"-view. In newer releases we only have "Display data items based on selection". Would be nice to have these options bac...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

"@ Functions" to SQL Query

SPSS Modeler does not support all the "@ functions" when we want to generate the SQL Query from the stream, for example the @OFFSET function. Thus when there is a node which uses this kind of function the stream is out of "SQL mode" and then is pr...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

DataStage S3 connector should be enhanced to support multiprotocol S3 bucket connection.

Currently all S3 connectors provided in DataStage only support nave S3 but not multiprotocol S3. For use cases where user can't map the NAS like region limitation or OCP4 restriction not allowing NAS mount, NAS storage could be configured as S3 bu...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Cleanup user details with bqueues -lr output if they don't have running/done jobs in system

Currently, we can find thousands of entries for all users even though they have ZERO STARTED jobs as listed in bqueues -lr output. For some of larger farms, these entries are close to 7M records and bqueues -lr takes long time to return the data. ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Deploy of QMF websphere on zCX Openshift

We are installing QMF for Websphere on z/OS but would like to run it under zCX Openshift. When will QMF for Websphere container based support for Red Hat OpenShift be available?
over 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0

FTM SWS, Enhanced resilience in z/OS High Availability configuration.

Case: Having FTM SWS running in High Availability mode across several z/OS lpars. Idea: If one FTM SWS on one lpar encounters a problem it should "step back" and let other remaining FTM SWS on other lpars take care of the workload, instead o...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration