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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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Close without exit

Most software programs allow the user close their work without exiting the program. In SPSS when only one sheet is open there is not option to close, only exit. This affects all users of SPSS. The current setup is cumbersome, being forced to open ...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Display group shows status of MAINT for subsystem

The display group command should also show a status of MAINT if a member was started access maintenance.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for RFC4180 CSV standard format

I want the Sequential file stage of DataStage to support the standard CSV format of RFC4180.
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Edit Cognos Charts in PowerPoint

A chart is exported from Cognos to PowerPoint(PPT). It is then sent to the client for review. The client requests font changes (non-data) to the chart. However, to make these changes the developer has to go back to Cognos, make the updates, log th...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA CDC password process fails audit

When configuring the Incremental Updates via the configuration console, a human being must know and see the password for the configuration console.In addition to change the configuration console password a human being must navigate thru the panels...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Change DSNARNMG to have a user define task name

Currently there's a hard coded name in module DSNARNMG. That program always tries to start a task called: DB2UDSMD. That is unacceptable for some installations where they have job and task name standards. This RFE is to add a new ZPARM to allow th...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow threads which use the accelerator (IDAA) to go inactive

Today, once a distributed thread has had a query offloaded to IDAA, that thread can never go inactive again. The desired behavior change is to allow distributed threads which utilize the accelerator to follow the same rules for going inactive as a...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Decreasing CF memory is slow

While working with PureScale, there may be a need to create room for new DB in the system. Once this happens we need to reconfigure CF memory, while keeping system up and running. We are concerned regarding CF_MEM_SZ , CF_GBP_SZ and CF_DB_MEM_SZ, ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Allow BIND EXPLAIN(ONLY) use virtual indexes

It would be very helpful if Db2 allowed (optionally) to use virtual indexes when BIND with EXPLAIN(ONLY) is performed. This can be an additional BIND parameter on whether or not use virtual indexes. This option will eliminate/reduce a need in thir...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Target to Google BigQuery

Customers are planning to deploy the Data Science Sandbox, Analytic platform on Google Cloud Platform, hence BigQuery as analytic engine. But they are facing challenges to replicate data from on premises database, including DB2, Oracle, .... to ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration