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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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Surrogate Key limit reached but job didn't abort

In the job , we are using one column with data type as 16-bit integer(SMALLINT) and the data range has exceeded in this month when we started from 31161 + 3883 and job has created same key for multiple records instead of failing and its ran succes...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

DB2 Audit like DB2 for z/OS in Syslog (SMF-Sätze, Type 100 und 101)

um neuen Compliance-Anforderungen begegnen zu können, sollen alle Datenbanken im laufenden BetriebSecurity- und Statistik-Informationen über Zugriffe liefern. DB2 for z/OS macht dieses über die z/OS System Management Facility (SMF-Sätze, Type ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Map LOB-columns in DB2 to VARCHAR(32kb) columns in IDAA

At this moment it is not possible to use LOB-columns in the IDAA. This limits our use of the IDAA in several areas where data is registered in LOB-columns. We understand that a full implementation of LOB-columns in IDAA will not happen in (near) f...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable proxy user for database connection

In my company, SPSS Modeler is connected to an Oracle database. Users can access to the database (through Modeler client application) by two means: With their basic account using their user (e.g. "toto") and password, which restricts their action ...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Server 0 Not under consideration

Cluster restart

While using the script egoshutdown.sh to shut down the cluster a lot of grid processes (pem and ssm) survive and turn into zombie processes.Killing these zombies after running the script egoshutdown.sh leads to "Blocked Hosts" after starting the c...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

search within a custom subset in subset editor

Cannot search within a custom subset in subset editor. Search features do not seem to work even though the element that is being searched for exist
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Enhanced Finish button

Currently in a report with independent prompts ‘Finish’ refreshes the page only if the prompt values are changed on the report. If the prompt values remain the same from the previous execution the previous page is displayed. Although prompt values...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced TM1 Source Node Performance

The current integration with TM1 source node pulls back an entire view before executing subsequent nodes which means any view that you need to query must either be limited to only the data you need or it pulls back additional data that is not need...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Report book extraction in excel workbook instead of separate excel files

When running a report book in cognos controller, it would be helpful to have the possibility to generate multiple excel reports in a single report book in 1 excel workbook instead of all single excel files.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to use Surrogate Key Generator in DataStage for Netezza DBMS

We are trying to use the balanced optimizer feature in DataStage 9.1 to rewrite the ETL logic in SQL that runs on the Netezza appliance instead of the DataStage server. We are looking for a way to generate the surrogate keys that works in DataStag...
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists