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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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allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

DataStage Amazon S3 Connector Enhancement

Need enhancement for the S3 Connector to support using SAML authentication to get temporary AWS access key and security token.
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Cell Auditor Capability

ON some (but not yet all report types) in PAx you have the capability to get the cell properties. It would be useful to get more information on the results of the cell. Especially if it is referencing an invalid element. Also please expand the pro...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prompt user for Dynamic Report name rather than using a random number

When adding a dynamic report, what appears to be added as a reference is a random number. In a book with multiple reports and multiple reports on the same sheet, these numbers give no clue as to which report is being referenced. In Perspectives, i...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to set the custom login page as default login page using SDK or some background process not from UI manually

We have created a sample login page, welcome page and our Own theme. But we don't want to import them using the UI - Manage-customization- extensions, rather we want to do it using SDK or some process like import content deployment and make them a...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Avoid CHECK PENDING when adding column with constraint

The ability to add a column to a table and at the same time specifying a check constraint, without having to run check data.The constraint should be "simple", i.e. only referencing the new column.The default value should off course satisfy the con...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow for multiple worker threads on SSL port

Allow for more than one worker thread to handle connections coming into SSL port. Feature should be able to allow for customization of number of threads (Ex: sslportalias-4 where 4 equals number of threads to be used)
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

List Partitioning

Allow to partition a table using a list of values (known as list partitioning).
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Update Facets property for entity model schould work correctly

When you add Tables from an existing Database to an entity model all seems ok. If you activate 'Update Facets property' to be able to see automatically changes of field lengths ( normally existing fields are not changed automatically) the prolem i...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0

When creating a report without using a package, an error is thrown when using SQL Queries

When creating a report without using a package, an error is thrown when the SQL Queries component is used. One must add at least one package in a report in order to use the SQL item in a report. No package is needed when using SQL Queries, so leav...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration