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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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ssched jobs missing task information to calculate job run time

We graph job run time from the data in Elasticsearch provided from LSF Explorer. ssched jobs do not contain enough information to calculate job run time. We believe task jobs should contain the same data as regular LSF jobs
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Round DOUBLE when number too small instead of returning error SQL0405N

SAS calculations can return DOUBLE values smaller than Sailfish can store in a DOUBLE data type. When a SAS dataset containing one of these values is written to Sailfish, the default datatype is DOUBLE and an error, SQL0405N, is returned. Sailfish...
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Instrument workfile high-watermarks in ACCTG

Instrument IFCID 0003 and IFCID 0148 counter(s) to show the maximum amount of Workfile used by a thread (4K blocks total, or separate by tables/indexes, or separate by 4K/32K Workfiles -- implementation choice.) It is difficult to manage Workfile ...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID361 records should provide the names/stmt_id of the packages which are bound/rebound

The Tracerecords for IFCID 361 don't provide the package names for Bind/Rebind.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Full support of large text fields with Anonymization API

Officially the current implementation of the Anonymization API supports large text fields. However when replacing the content of a large text field the anonymized / new content can only have 4000 chars at maximum. This is suitable for Text Area fi...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

Restrict Custom SQL in Report Authoring to specific datasource

We have a couple of datasources which all are modelled in a framework manager package or a data module. So the users can only use the package or datamodule but not the datasource itself. For some datasources we don't want to model or provide a dat...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

WLM thresholds and compound expressions

I would like WLM thresholds to have compound expressions.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

refresh fedration cache withouht the need to bounce instance once port number is changed from x to y

We have fedration defined from db2 to db2 v1 11 servers. once we update the port number of the fedration server we started getting errors like below SQL30080N A communication error "111" occurred sending or receiving data from the remote database....
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Support for MDM v12 deployment on WAS BASE

We are planning for an upgrade to MDM v12, later in 2023. We as a business are moving to cloud based infrastructure and as part of that journey we are guided by corporate principles for deployment. IBM provided containers for MDM do not meet our c...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Allow customers to enable multiple consolidations batches to run in parallel

Because of the high volume of the consolidation we need to run during the closing periods, it will be very beneficial to have the ability to run multiple consolidations at the same time, in parallel batch jobs. We understand the risk of running co...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration