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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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Update an Oracle table thru Fed Server

Since we have chinese characters in db2, we need to have default sorting by pinyin. Therefore, we can only add Collating sequence (CLDR181_LZH) when creating the db. However, when we use Federation Server which connect to Oracle, I can't use strin...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

lock table partition in xxx mode

In batch jobs, to avoid lock escalation, customer needs to lock a table partition in exclusive mode, and run dml against this partition.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Want to addfeature to include vale of reference variables in export file from TAFS

Want to addfeature to include vale of reference variables in export file from TAFS
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Federation Server support for REST/Json

We have Federation Server 10.5 and trying to connect to one of our data source. The service available is REST/Json. We want some support in federating to rest/json from our federation server. The web service wrapper available in the federation ser...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Load using Sockets or RDMA

In pureScale environment, it will be very advantageous to use DB2 load from sockets in addition to pipes.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Usage of IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office should be fully supported in Citrix Terminal Servers

IBM currently does not support the usage of Cognos for Microsoft Office (CfMO) with Citrix Terminal Servers. IBM should make the necessary adjustments so CfMO can be deployed to Citrix environments and maintain full support.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add feature of adding multiple ID's ID field to generate long ID on TAFS

I could not select TAFS 4.0.1 so I selected StatisticsCustomer wants to add feature to set more than 2 variables to ID field. She wants to create unique ID from the combination of multiple varialbes
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Platform Analytics Full Support for License Scheduler Metrics andProjects

We require full metrics and reporting for License Scheduler in Project Mode. From Support the data is there but no workbook exists to view the data. We would want the same capabilities, filters and measures for License Projects as we see for LSF P...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement request for IBM SPSS Modeler 16.0 connection to TM1

We are testing the IBM SPSS Modeler 16.0 to TM1 and we do not like the current approach using a process to export the entire cube view to a file and then import to SPSS. This takes a very long time to process cubes, and during our tests we found p...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Profiling for athorities and privileges

Often application owners/developers do not exactly know which authorities (like LOAD) and privileges (like read on syscat tables) are needed on a database for the application workload. It would be helpful to have a method to capture the privileges...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration