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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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Updating views by TI and saved in Book

We are trying to update the view structure/properties and subset assignments to various named Views used in our PAW Reports. For instance, we are using an existing View created in architecture, in PAW Report by just dragging and dropping into the ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show complete names and pathes of error and output files in the LSF RTM grid console

RTM truncates the names/pathes of error and output files in the grid console which makes the filenames for long pathes unreadable and potentially indistinguishable, i.e. unusable.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

DSC comment support

Currently the DSC only supports /* */ style starting comments. The "normal" -- style causes the SQL to never be cached! This is naturally very bad as loads of JAVA coders start their SQL with a -- comment to internally document the SQL code. This ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

User Logon/off log records to identify mode of access (client, excel-linked, web)

when Administrator reviews user log on records, there can be multiple logon and logoff records around the same time when user log in to application and excel link. But Administrator is unable to identify which record is for which mode of access. W...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

LSF / Extend "span[hosts=xx]" capability to several hosts to optimize cpu utilization in exclusive context

There is no way today to optimize CPU utilization over several hosts, i.e. to specify on how many servers the job should be dispatched, and let LSF use all available cpu on these hosts. This works fine with 1 single host, using cpu range and "span...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Disable "Automatic Group and Summery behavior for List"

Currently in the report development tool, this annoying feature is enabled by default. It can be disabled on report by report bases by going to /ellipsis/option/Report and un-checking this option. Please disable this feature by default or give use...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

DataStage Ad-hoc SQL execution support

Using IBM DataStage 11.3, I observed that DatStage does not have flexible option to execute SQL and capture its output. I understand its doable if we use ODBC/Sybase stage but I want to execute SQL during sequence activities to decide on course of...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Require Symphony processes to run as non-root in advancewem

Commerzbank is using Windows 2003 Management hosts which is reaching its end of support and we are in situation where we have to move to another OS immediately. So far we have tested it with Windows 2008 but Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable ver...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Change DSNHDECP from being hard coded

Db2 Admin has the name DSNHDECP hard coded into the product and this may cause problems for MetLife – they had the same problem with Optim products and had to get it changed. So the change need is to make the naming of DSNHDECP a variable at insta...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Management Console Performance Metrics Graph Viewing - display metrics for selected point in time in the graph

When viewing the performance metrics graphs, it would be very helpful if when you use the mouse to point to a specific point in time on a line in the graph, that a box display which shows the values for that specific point in time for the metric r...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration