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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.

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[SMC][RFE][WellsFargo] - SMC tasklevel balancing enhancement

Task Level balancing only evaluate the balancing once during the session creation, meaning once the session is created, there is no more dynamic balancing, all tasks will be dispatched to participating cluster according to a static share ratio. Th...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

manage threads with TI functions

provide TI functions for managing threads.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Format Classes for Objects for Standarization

Similar to classes in Cognos Analytics it would be nice to have them in Planning Analytics. This would allow an easier control over formatting of multiple objects, especially objects across tabs/workbooks. This would allow the capaiblity to contro...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide greater navigation in report studio

In version 10 we could right click on a list object and navigate to the query behind. Now we have to user a few more clicks to get to this in a no so direct way.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow paste over calculated cells

Currently if you try to paste a row of data down to another row but one of the columns is calculated you get an error message. I would like to suggest providing the ability to paste the data but ignore the calculated cells. As an example if I am p...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improving the bridge FileSystem OpenIGC bridge to import Excel file with File Name and Folder

Only one bridge (is FileSystem in OpenIGC bridge) can import Excel file. But with this bridge, there are no File name and Folder hierarchy imported to IGC. Need improve it to more useful metadata to end users.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Create Accounting Data Lite record type

The standard DB2 Accounting record has become increasingly bloated over the years. All of the information contained in each record is useful, but much of it is not necessary for basic Accounting purposes. Because the record is so big, and so expen...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Selective Suppression of DB2 maintained System History

There are times when it is not desirable to create a new DB2 maintained system history row if the values in the columns of the base table have actually not changed. DB2 already suppresses the actual update of a non-temproal table if none of the co...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Import a DataStage job into a different environment on a different server (Git integration)

Currently, the script dfdGitCli.sh doesn't allow a job to be imported into a slightly different project name on a different server, e.g. from project_dev on erads11.ci.datastage.com to project_tst on erads12.ci.datastage.com. Given that our work f...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

BID lock avoidance on MDC tables

2 DMLs working on different dimensions on MDC can lead to deadlock when this should not happen. Ref: case TS000003442
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration