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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Bring back summary of the custom step options in a job

It’s hard to check how the step options are defined, you have to do multiple clicks to check it. The classic view shows a summary. It is especially hard when one report occurs more than one time in a job. For example with different output formats...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Support resizable jobs for compound resource requests (RES_REQ) using blaunch (parallel jobs)

A job that has compound resources cannot be resized - why?=============================================== We use blaunch to launch jobs with the following resource requirements. Begin ApplicationNAME = core8DESCRIPTION = applications that need 1 H...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Allow Read Only Sharing on HADR while Catalog updates

We are trying to use HADR Read only Sharing to allow ad-hoc query against a 4Tb transactional database. The standby should allow us to reduce the impact of ah-hoc business queries. The application is a vendor supplied document storage and retrieva...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Delivered

metadata enrichment filter

The metadata enrichment screens in WKC 4.5 do not have a sort option for the business term column. The stated reason is that more than one term can be assigned. The filter option can filter on business terms and data classes but not for blank. Add...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Use coherent units and unit abbreviations for memory sizes in `bjobs -o` output

bjobs -o "max_mem memlimit" creates a hard-to-parse-and-process output because it a) doesn't respect LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS for the numbers b) uses different units for the numbers c) uses different abbreviations for the same unit ("Gbytes" vs. "G") T...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

syntax validation for DB2 ZOS SQL statement

In the past, Data Studio could validate DB2 z/OS SQL statement, but it now does not support new SQL after FL501. It gives false alarm when SQL does not have syntax error. Please refer to case TS003384292.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Matrix - Symphony 6.1.1 SDK support Java 8 (JVM 1.8) (DUP36949)

Main concern is the End of public updates finish for Java 7 in April 2015 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html Secondary would be developers wanting to use Symhony SDK with Java 8
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

netezza performance portal

we need to see information from netezza server such as distribution of data at dataslice level. Drill down to list of skewed tables on a skewed data slice. The information in the netezza performance portal. We also need the ability to see activity...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Workspace Advanced - Pass Context Filters as Drill parameters

Context filters from Workspace Advanced are not being passed as drill-through parameters. This is known behaviour, tech note from Dec 2014:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21511919 Desired behaviour: Context filters are passed as d...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Logarithmic scale option in dashboard visualizations

Logarithmic scales are a frequent need that are available in certain charts in reports. This same feature should be introduced in Dashboard visualizations to support analysis of a wider range of data sets.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered