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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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CLOSE NEVER - Avoid pseudo-close for active datasets and in-memory objects, to avoid sync I/O due to XI

PROBLEM: Our shop has an active 10-way data-sharing environment and we have been fighting for some time to get our group bufferpool Sync/XI hit ratios up above 90%. We appear to be fighting "pseudo-close" in this endeavor. According to our co...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support for new SAP BAPI function for query data more than 1M cells

Currently, when use Cognos BI query data from SAP BW. If the result is more than 1M cells SAP will return error message "BAP-ERR-0002 A BAPI error has occurred in the function module BAPI_MDDATASET_GET_AXIS_DATA. MDX result contains too many cells...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

stripchar() function requires use of accent grave instead of quotes (I'm not making this up!)

When attempting to use the stripchar() function in a DERIVE node to remove spaces, dashes and parentheses from a phone number string field, I encountered an error: failed to apply operator or function to argument types stripchar(SYMBOL,SYMBOL). Th...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Log file rotation for Connection Manager on Windows

Using the Connection Manager LOGFILE token, it is not possible to rotate logs. Therefore they become large and unwieldy
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Datastage reportdocument images in JPG and not BMP

Want an option to specify image format of JPG in dsdesign.exe
about 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

In bhpart output, there's STARTED and RESERVED slots number, but no PEND slots number. We need the number of PEND slots for b

In bhpart output, there's STARTED and RESERVED slots number, but no PEND slots number. We need the number of PEND slots for business purpose.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

In the "bresource -gl" output, there is slot number of "GUARANTEE CONFIGURED", "GUARANTEE USED" and "TOTAL USED", but no "PEN

In the "bresource -gl" output, there is slot number of "GUARANTEE CONFIGURED", "GUARANTEE USED" and "TOTAL USED", but no "PEND" slots number. We need the number of "PEND" slots for business purpose.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

Shared folder links do not work for anyone except Administrators if a custom folder is configured

Any shared folder link from Cognos Analytics ( 11.0.0 through the most recent version 11.1.1.0) will not work for anyone except System Administrators or Folder Administrators and therefore this feature is useless if shared with other Consumers/Aut...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Move fields in a UVA/variable activity

I want to able to move a field/variable in a UVA activity inside a DataStage sequence. Currently you can not change the position of a field in a UVA activity. Especially if you have aleady defined 20 Fields and want to add another one on positio...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable copying of links in the Designer

Currently links can not be copied standalone, you can copy a stage/activity and delete the stage and all links you don't want to achieve the result. Especially for Stages where you have no Mapping folder (i.e. Shared Container, Modify Stage) to ge...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration