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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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Enhanced Widget Connections in Dashboards

The request behind this idea is to have additional control over how dashboard visualizations respond to each other via widget connections. It is understood that additional connections can be created to group respective visualizations together but ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Improve MAKEPBR functionality

When using the MAKEPBR command to convert a classic partitioned tablespace to a UTS Partition by Range tablespace, the generated job may not actually materialize the new PBR tablespace because the Admin Tool does not force the generated REORG util...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

When submitting a job to a CGROUPv2 Compatible System Modify cpu.shares based upon the task count requested by the job

LSF would support CGROUPv2 better, if it adjusted the number of CPU shares for a job based upon the number of cpus/tasks requested by the job.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Delivered

This is a request for CDC/IIDR to provide an augmented timestamp, using an ordinal/sequence number on top of the Db2 LUW second granularity....to give better ordering for JMS targets.

FedEx initially benefits but later on all companies doing replication from mainframe platform to LUW. CDC/IIDR retrieves timestamps (via @timstamp) from the source DBMS. When the source is Db2/z, for instance , we return their timestamp which is...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Governance Workflows by Steward

As a business SME, owner, or steward assigned to a governance artifact, I would like to know when that governance artifact has been created, modified, or deleted. Governance workflows should be configured so that a steward on an artifact is listed...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use. It would be nice to have a setting such as: MA...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

QM CAE web interface should remember the target CQM subsystem

When using the QM CAE web interface. When starting the QM CAE browser, the Activity Browser drop down list for "targets" always default initially to the alphabetical first target name. This is my dev DB2. I am usually using QM to look at prod. So ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Delivered

improve support for system profiles reporting

Sites with large numbers of threads have trouble understanding the state of a thread (idle etc). IBM introduced system profiles to help here. Customer would like to have a) better reporting for the settings for system profiles and b) improve threa...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

InfoSphere DataStage with MariaDB

We need information how to integrate MariaDB with InfoSphere Datastage as MariaDB is not supported officially by IBM. Please add Hla Oo into the email loop , He is the FCA officially contact support for this case = Hla.Oo@external.fcagroup.com
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

A tab-separated values (TSV) file format should be supported as source data in Data Virtualization.

A tab-separated values (TSV) file format should be supported as source data in Data Virtualization. (A Japanese Client) CSV file format is listed in the supported data source list for Data Virtualization as below. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowl...
about 5 years ago in Watson Query 1 Delivered