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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Allow TAPEUNITS to use virtual tape drives

The COPY utility utilizing templates allows for TAPEUNITS(0) to let COPY decide the appropriate number of physical tape drives to use. If all tape drives are virtual, copy will only use one tape drive. This requires hard coding TAPEUNITS(n) to get...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatic update statistics triggered after n sequential scans

Background/automatic "update statistics low" for tables after nth sequential scan
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Make lsadmin/badmin accept "yes" and "no" as answers

Questions asked by `lsadmin` and `badmin` (and maybe other administrative LSF commands) only accept "y" and "n" as answers. "yes" and "no" are not accepted but should be
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Additional capabilities for tracking and managing distributed applications.

Be able to Tag IP addresses and other identifiers to group them together and provide the capability to watch or capture activity /errors/issues by the tag.Also, add currentPackageset (Collection) as an identifier for SQL captures. Tagging would al...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow option to save a view as an MDX view or standard view when using cube viewer in PAX or PAW

With both PAX and PAW we are able to create a new cube view by opening the cube viewer and clicking the save icon. Clicking this save icon will publish the view for later reuse. When views are created by this cube viewer within PAW/PAX the views a...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Include "Process Progress Report" in PAW

The process progress report in Architect doesn't feature in PAW. Its helpful for when a process is taking a long time and you want to know what tab its stuck on. Something to give visibility on how a process is progressing is helpful for modeling ...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide flexible way to segementise tasks based on various attributes of the data model

It is desirable to be able to query for a combination of attributes.Query should support wildcard and phonetic where applicable.Attributes are:Meta level - Match Category type - Score range - From/Til which date/time on has a task been created (I'...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Information server client tier on Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).

Allow InfoSphere Information server client tier to run on Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][PIMCO] - Host Factory - Private Cloud Burst - Cisco Unified Computing System

We would request private cloud burst, Cisco UCS running on VMware. is supported in Symphony 7.2
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 7 Not under consideration

MapR Support for Dask Component in Conductor

Version: 2.5.0Platform: x86Description: We'd like to request the development team to include MapR support for the Dask component of Conductor 2.5.0. We would like to be able to use the DataConnector to connect to MapR to read and write within a da...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future consideration