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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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dynamically change the number of UJOB_LIMIT

I'd like to dynamically change the number of UJOB_LIMIT. For example that my total slots for normal.q is 3024, and my UJOB_LIMIT is set to 1000. If my number of RUN is 2733 so close to my total slots of 3024, is there a way to detect that and chan...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Limit the number of child objects association in a Grid

For a business need, we need to associate only one child object (not primary), so it should be limited to only one child association in a Grid. In 8.2.0.3, when I use Multi Select as false, it allow to add (associate) one child at time, but you ca...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

A more efficient way for CDC to process subscriptions which are behind in the Db2 logs

This is related to the CDC Db2 z/OS engine. The situation is multiple subscriptions that are behind, for example due to the subscriptions being stopped for several hours for technical reasons. We recently had 3 subscriptions that went down for mor...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

external loader with mutiple schemas but same table names across the schemas

some users modeler use only the table names without a specifying the name of the schema when writing to a database. There are situations were there are multiple schemas with the table name. This situation would has been known to cause serious prob...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Ability to filter on reporting fragment fields

Users have reporting fragment fields and would like the ability to build filters using these fields. It's understood that this is complex and likely not to happen since the value of reporting fragment fields do not have a predictable format and I ...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Manual Loss Event Entry Form enhancements

Enhancements for the manual loss event entry form: The text area fields on the form have only horizontal scroll and no vertical wrapping. It should function like text areas in OP app, where vertical scroll is used, then the user can easily see wha...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

DataStage roles (allow migration but not editing or creation of jobs)

We need a new role that allows for migration of jobs but does not allow for the creation and editing of jobs. This is for separation of duties.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Can bstop release slots in order that other jobs can start on the same host ?

Here is an example. I tried the following case. gnx5561 has been booked by advanced reservation: RSVID TYPE USER NCPUS RSV_HOSTS TIME_WINDOW res0 group res0 3/4 gnx5561:3/4 7/28/18/0-7/30/12/0 I have launched one job reserving 3 cpus (857274). It ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Adding storage path to specific partition

Recently I faced a problem on a DPF environment. I had raised below case with IBM and seems as of now this is not possible. In DPF environment, how can I add storage path to a specific database partititon? The below command adds the storage path t...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Future consideration

Alter Database CCSID to UNICODE

The CCSID of a database is only allowed to be ALTERed within the encoding scheme (in this case EBCDIC) and only to/from the euro-equivalent CCSID of the original EBCDIC CCSID. This is a legacy restriction at the design level. After converting all ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration