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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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Add more date and time formats

Please do add more date and time formats to the "Variable Type" and Syntax commands. Microsoft Office Excel do support all kind of varieties, SPSS Statistics should too! I know that many users have to engage in complicated string transformation, t...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

[Resource Management Policy] Resource plan to allow Time Interval by Day

Resource Plan currently allows Time Interval to be defined. This needs to be extended to allow definition based on day of the week. This will make it possible for Resource plans to be limited to weekdays or weekends depending on usage patterns.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Performance degradation after enabling RCAC

Performance degradation and difference in behavior of access plan on stored procedure query after enabling RCAC - column masking for a column which is part of select condition. The query access plan without RCAC is scanning only the table (Table A...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Batch Export to make HTTPS call instead of HTTP in IBM MDM RDM Suite.

Hello Team, We use InfoSphere Master Data Management Reference Data Management Hub v11.6 to maintain the reference data across organization. And to implement automation of export we use BatchExport API. Now when we saw the API config in WebSphere ...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Need HTTPS call for BatchExport API for InfoSphere RDM

We use InfoSphere Master Data Management Reference Data Management Hub v11.6 to maintain the reference data across organization. And to implement automation of export we use BatchExport API. Now when we saw the API config in WebSphere console; it ...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Allow HTTPS calls for InfoSphere RDM to run BatchExport API

Hello all, We use InfoSphere Master Data Management Reference Data Management Hub v11.6 to maintain the reference data across organization. And to implement automation of export we use BatchExport API. Now when we saw the API config in WebSphere c...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Capability to read data sets and load in database tables - not available per IBM in Cognos 11.1.R5-R7

is it possible to read data sets and load in database tables, whether content store is on database or external storage? Purpose is to reuse Cognos Dataset elsewhere for analysis, so want to load data in table or for any other analytical tool.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Copy on Package but Allow for Development Using Dev Tool

We would like the ability to restrict copying on packages while still allowing users to develop reports against that package. We have worked with IBM Technical Support and tried many options (refer to: 33942,227,000) but not one of the options rec...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA - DBCS character errors on IDAA table after loading data

Converting Service Request 53184,L6Q,000 to an RFE. When EBCDIC DBCS characters are loaded to an IDAA table on a MIXED=YES subsystem, the double width space character x'4040' is converted to x'FEFE' for GRAPHIC and VARGRAPHIC columns. This causes ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bar particular DB2 group members from castout ownership

Currently the first member of a DB2 share group that lodges group update intent becomes the castout owner for that buffer pool. In the real world some LPARs can be significantly capped damaging write/update performance for the whole share group. W...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration