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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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adding NOPAD support for the catalog copy

allow NOPAD as it makes a lot of sense if you have a lot of varchar. We are really struggling with space when not using it. There is no support for adding options like NOPAD to the UNLOAD for the catalog copy. So the UNLOAD statement will have to ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Japanese translation of user interfaces

For Japanese customers, Japanese translation of user interfaces, such as messages, help texts, GUI and CUI panels are required in addition to product manuals.For example, Japanese translation of the following components, are needed; - GUI (graphic...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

The function that can close host automatically by reserved memory

One of competition scheduler, Runtime NC(Network Computing) has a useful function.It is to make execution server "FULL" status automatically when user submits a job with reserved memory.If do so, it doesn't dispatch a job to that host any more. I ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Notebook status on SIG startup

Is there a way to start all SIG's with the Notebooks remaining in Defined state / not started? This would be helpful in managing resources so that slots are only in use when users need them. Users who rarely or never login to the environment would...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.2.1 1 Delivered

Infosphere Workbench to support enabling default threshold feature new in 11.6 fix pack 7 SE and be able to configure new sources with default threshold

The Infosphere workbench does not support enabling default threshold and needs to be done though SQL updates. The Infosphere workbench does not support configuring new sources using workbench when default threshold is enabled. The Infosphere workb...
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 8 Delivered

Clear way to distinguish between Static and Dynamic Subsets

There should be a clear way to distinguish between static and dynamic subsets to ensure users are aware of their dataset. When using the subset editor, you have know various 'tricks' to know if your current set is dynamic or static. For example, y...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

User segregation within Instance Groups

Each user needs their own storage space WITHIN an instance group. MUST have private storage each user will see, as well as common space to work as a team on. Keep models and notebooks separate from (common) data, if desired. MUST prevent one user ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 1 Delivered

Ability to Sample Uniformly 1000 Rows (or more if engine permits) in Data Refinery.

Many times, data comes ordered by some index or column. If this is the case, data exploration and visualization will be biased towards one part of the data. I propose to let the user pick what 1000 rows to display: first 1000, last 1000 or a unifo...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Remove original_record message from lsb.acct

Remove original_record message from the index that lsb.acct. The original_record message take up a lot of memory but useless.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Data Refinery: Infer Data Types Automatically

Right now, Data Refinery users need to go column by column changing every type since all columns are read as strings. This is very time consuming and a pain point. It is also a very basic features that all our competitors have.
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered