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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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Allow system administrators to specify bufferpool sizes in "M" or "G", rather than pages.

With big memory and bufferpools measured in gigabytes, sizing pools by number of pages becomes tedious and error-prone. A 1GB pool requires one to specify -ALT BPOOL(BPx) VPSIZE(262144). A 5GB pool would be VPSIZE(1310720). Most users use "round" ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bug report: entering codes for missing values

I am running SPSS v29 under a concurrent license. Entering negative numbers for user defined missing values does not work now, neither in the Variable View or in Data&Define Varpiable Properties.
about 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage supporting writing data to GCP GCS with CMEK

DataStage (11.7.1) Google Cloud Storage (GCS) connector failed to write data into GCS, not supporting Customer Managed Encryption Key (CMEK). We in HSBC use CMEK in all components in GCP. If this is enabled, we can use GCS with DataStage directly....
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of compression algorithm used by DB2

We have noticed that the compression ratio (PAGESAVE) for first partition of a Partitioned TS is 0% after running an IBM Reorg Utility. The reason why PAGESAVE/compression ratio for that first Partition is 0% is caused because many initial rows in...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Utility for multiple job compile at server level in DataStage

Hi Team, I'm looking for a Utility at server level for multiple job compile. I want to know whether DataStage have any utility for mutilple job compile at server level? I know that we have dscc.exe at client level to perform compilation! I want th...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

CaDS Deployment Manager - extended Job History Filters

In C&Ds Deployment Manager Job History you can filter jobs by different criteria. One of them is Last Run Status. From drop down list you can chose only three: Success, Failure and Canceled. It would be appreciated that the filter would also i...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration

Runstats: additional opti...

Runstats will fail during execution if an object is unavailable or still does not exist (although 'define yes'). Please provide an option to skip those objects and continue with next object.During LISTDEF there is the option e.g. ITEMERROR SKIP to...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Make name of object the default when exporting

Currently when exporting a DataStage object from Designer (with rightclick->Export), the tool will suggest the last used filename as "Export to file:" filename. In most cases (when exporting a single object) I want to name the DSX like the obje...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

greater/less than and between option for attributes filtering

In PAx and PA Workspace you can filter subsets based on attributes =, <>, contains, start/end with a selected value. But you can't select members by attributes with value greater/than a value or between two values. It can be done by mdx only...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hold all leaves

It would be very useful to have the possibility to hold all leaves elements at all levels from a single consolidated cells. Actually we have this capability in architect but not in planning analytics workspace.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration