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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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NOT_LOGGED Database Export Node should be easier to set via scripting.

The NOT_LOGGED property of a Database Export Node cannot be set properly via scripting set until after a connection to a DB2 database is established. This mirrors the GUI experience where the check box for this setting does not appear until after ...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Request to support SQL Se...

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over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Create a Legacy Table bas...

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over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Support Japanese character for column name, job name, stage name and routine name

DataStage supports "alphabetic character" for column name. But my customer want to use Japanese(Kanji) for column name because they now use Japanese for column name in host system and MS SQL Server system. And they want to keep "Rules for name def...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

PAW to report errors from SmarterMaps

Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) is using SmarterMaps, a component from Watson Analytics. If a visualisation map does not appear in PAW, sometimes errors are reported in SmarterMaps. If these errors are also shown in PAW, this would make trouble...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve parallel processing performance of Refresh

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Improvement Refresh performance of multi-view definition segment

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Generate DB2 load file by CDC Utility

A project using the replication function from IMS to DB2 on Linux is in progress, but there is a requirement that it is difficult to deal with some. For example, there is a requirement to add a new segment by the Unload/Load function of IMS utilit...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Function to convert BIT information to another column with CDC

A project using the replication function from IMS to DB2 on Linux is in progress. In customer's IMS application, many BIT items of PL/I are used, and there is a requirement to convert it to a column of bytes on the CDC side. There are many target ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

LSF Job Pack esub output

Currently LSF Job Pack feature does not output messages from esub. We have certain customized output in our esub which we would like to see output when users are submitting using job pack.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration