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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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Provide user the ability to suppress generation of DISCARDDN, PUNCHDDN, UNLDDN for reorg TS

These are not needed in most reorgs, tool should allow the user to determine if these should be generated.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

OPL Lazy Constraint Pool

At http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21681643, it is indicated that it is not possible to add lazy constraints in OPL Script. I know OPL is not a programming language, but it is quite important to be able to add lazy constraints in ...
over 5 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration

Issue kerberos ticket renew from IDR

Customer replicates from IMS to Hadoop(HDFS), IDR abends on authentication failure(clock skew) due to Kerberos ticket expiry. This is manual intervention to renew the ticket, and recycle IDR subscriptions.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Request CA 11 Dashboards and Dashboard Maps support for Australian ABS Statistical Area level 1 mapping

CA11.06 supports most Australian Postcodes, however as post codes are defined for mail delivery they are not always reflective of geographic boundaries.The Statistical Local Area (SLA) is an Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) w...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data driven text visualization

On dashboards there is often a need to annotate or comment on the data being displayed. For example, I may wish to indicate in a comment what percentage of my employees meet a certain criteria. This could be accomplished with a hard-coded string i...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted We have more then one database in an instance and the current implementation of db2 backup database use snapshot can not handle that. We want to make a snapshot for all databases in an instance and preferabl...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow end user to export data from a drill through in PAW.

We have setup drill through on our higher level reports to bring users back to the detailed cube views. This allows us to show high level summaries and give the end user the ability to go to the detailed cell data without having to navigate a cube...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Questions related to what Linux utilities are being used by IIS

Our security scanners have noticed that multiple files from multiple servers do not have either a user or group ID, or even both. These files seem to be found on the Microservice Tier, as the example below: OS_team: -rw-r--r-- ug_kafka 9092 /v...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Smart shared memory dumps

Other database products when dumping shared memory including context relevant information. E.g. which partition was being accessed. Contents of last buffer pool page being accesssed.If the buffers pools are massive e.g. hundreds of gigabyes then t...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

a new parameter to control to force MIPStart if the variables are feasible

CPLEX choose to use MIPStart or not accoring to the heuristic. But sometimes the user think MIPStart values as particular variables is the best way to solve the problem. So we’d like to request a new parameter to control to force MIPStart if the v...
over 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration