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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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Symphony Client install on Windows Machine

Client Don't want to install symphony client msi package install on multiple windows hosts separately and it needs lot of effort to install on each machine and they have to engage Windows OSE's all the time. Is there a way to install package on wi...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Increase the size of varchar column in Z/oS File Stage

When we use the Z/oS File Stage for ingest in a varchar field bigger than 32K the process fail the case for this problem was TS000138743
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

File Upload Status Notification - Add Succeeded Tab

This proposal is to add a Succeeded tab to the left hand side Upload Status panel to list all of the assets that were successfully loaded in the current session. This tab would list all assets that were loaded with a link that will take the user t...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Support for SPSS Amos in Citrix XenApp environment

We teach SPSS Amos in a college using a Citrix XenApp environment and require the ability to licence the software via network licence as multiple students could be logged in on any given server using SPSS Amos. Presidion case 00008641 [ ref:_00DD0...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Support High Availailty with hot standby mode

IMS, in support of HA, supports the concept of rolling maintenance where the IMS systems would be shutdown one at a time so that changes/maintenance can be applied. Once applied the system is restarted and the next IMS system is shutdown until we ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

LSB_MC_INITFAIL_RETRY needs to handle the case where license resource (by License Scheduler) request is not satisfied.

As LSB_MC_INITFAIL_RETRY does not handle the case where license token request is not satisfied, job is repeatedly forwarded and recalled while license is not available.As we use WAN licenses shared by multiple clusters, when the license is not ava...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Temporal Tables by default in vNext Db2 Optim Directory

We want to set up an automated purge of Optim Archives but would like to preserve the metadata about each archive so we can do time travel queries to track the lifecycle of our archives. This might, could or should be a requirement for records man...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Not under consideration

request zookeeper support in hive ODBC driver

the current datastage ODBC driver requires hard coded Hive2 server in DSN and is not suitable for a big cluster with multiple hive server available. We want the ODBC driver to support zookeeper so an available hive server can be selected at connec...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

OnBar selective space backup restore allow non-backup spaces online but empty

Most of our customer base rely on selective space OnBar backups. As 99% of our customer base have been used a concept called Copy live database to a test database under the same instance (obviously, with different database and DBspace name) for ev...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Formatting Inheritance

Have conditional Formatting created in a PAW cube view apply to the children of a consolidated element.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration