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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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Find special characters in WKC Catalog search

It has been found that the WKC Catalog search does not properly handle special characters (underscore specifically). The response to the IBM Support Case is that this is a limitation of the "light weight" search feature used, based on Lucene and i...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Add the following commands to the Query log, also add the total execution time to the query log output

Right now, many commands are logged to the query log, but a certain number of commands are not. Additionally, we would like to know the transaction time to process each command added to the log entry. The commands that are missing are: bswitch bk...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Add the ‘Db2 Tenant’ feature (enabling database multi-tenancy) delivered in Db2 11.5.5 on other platforms to the Db2 for i product.

This would enable applications to be offered in a SaaS multi-tenant environment with much lower costs than the existing dedicated partition or database options.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Ansible Playbook to Deploy Spectrum Conductor

We are planning to upgrade the OS to RHEL 8 on the servers hosting Spectrum Conductor 2.5.0. With this there is also a requirement to have automation in place. We would like to get an Ansible Playbook to Deploy Spectrum Conductor.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Not under consideration

Remove dependency on legacy library libnsl.so.1

Most recent Linux' OS' do not provide an easy way to create a dynamic support for libnsl.so.1 any longer and instead they link to libnsl.so.2* due to libnsl.so being symbolically linked to libnsl.so.2*. The library libnsl.so.2 de-contented several...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Customize date output format for bjobs, bacct, bhist commands

Current output for date format is Apr 17 03:06:23. Customer prefers this date format: 2022 04/17/2022 03:06:23
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Fix Custom Calculation validation error

We recently created a Case to ask about a validation error that occurs in Cognos' "Create Calculation" editor. Those error details are summarized below, and in this linked Case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002b4qa4AAA/on-custom-cal...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Multiuser Configuration for Db2 for i

If you have, or you plan to add, a datastore that is accessed by more than one user, you can enable automatic multiuser configuration when adding datastores, and you can prompt users to log comments when unlocking subscriptions when the source is ...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Allow for the bulk update of a secondary specification in PIM V12

We have over 300 secondary specs defined within our implementation of PIM. We can assign one of these secondary specs to a level of our merch hierarchy. Due to the disparate nature of our secondary specs, we need the ability to be able to select a...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 7 Functionality already exists

Converting encrypted/hash db2 for IBM i. Columns to Postgresql char column.

We are trying replicating from db2 for I table that has a column containing HASH or encrypted values. I have been researching this for some time and I can find any solution for that.
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration