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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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Add invisible index

Add the possibiltity to set an index as visible or invisible so that, when it is alter as invisible, the optimizer only takes it in account when the session ask for the index
about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Show complete names and pathes of error and output files in the LSF RTM grid console

RTM truncates the names/pathes of error and output files in the grid console which makes the filenames for long pathes unreadable and potentially indistinguishable, i.e. unusable.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Improve Various Components of the Current Scheduler Adlgorithm

Currently, though the Scheduler supports threads, the processing is not a thread per bucket, but rather a threads that are used on a per bucket basis and buckets are still handled serially, which has led us to Host Match times around 400 seconds. ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 4 Not under consideration

display workbook path on all PAw reports

we think it would be beneficial to add the display workbook path on all PAw reports. business users often send us screen shots of reports but we can identify the path of where the report is located.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enabling API to provide backup feasibility on Data Quality Projects and WKC artifacts

Client have a number of Data Quality projects and WKC artifacts. When a situation occus to crate back up or recover from these projects client would like to use cpd-cli tool or the APIs.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

DSC comment support

Currently the DSC only supports /* */ style starting comments. The "normal" -- style causes the SQL to never be cached! This is naturally very bad as loads of JAVA coders start their SQL with a -- comment to internally document the SQL code. This ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

User Logon/off log records to identify mode of access (client, excel-linked, web)

when Administrator reviews user log on records, there can be multiple logon and logoff records around the same time when user log in to application and excel link. But Administrator is unable to identify which record is for which mode of access. W...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Disable "Automatic Group and Summery behavior for List"

Currently in the report development tool, this annoying feature is enabled by default. It can be disabled on report by report bases by going to /ellipsis/option/Report and un-checking this option. Please disable this feature by default or give use...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

More granular control of EGO_SERVICES_CONTROL for notebook consumers

This has been explained with figures in the slack thread: https://ibmsystemslabservices.slack.com/archives/GTDAWABQX/p1643389039169000 Today, in order for a user to be able to start/stop its own notebook in an instance group, the permission EGO_SE...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Future consideration

Change DSNHDECP from being hard coded

Db2 Admin has the name DSNHDECP hard coded into the product and this may cause problems for MetLife – they had the same problem with Optim products and had to get it changed. So the change need is to make the naming of DSNHDECP a variable at insta...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists