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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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Enable a Time out value if an Active CM is unable to contact a configured Standby CM

Enable a time out value if the active CM is unable to reach a configured standby CM for any reason, and unregister the malfunctioning CM from the list of dispatchers
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[GUI][Usability] - checked consumer admin users on consumer properties

On the consumer properties view (WEBGUI), there is no way to list the checked user for this consumer only or make the checked user in the beginning. It is so hard to look through over 4000 user lists to get Consumer Admin, Consumer User, etc.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

Lifecycle Management Server Mappings for Local Install

Provide the capability to map different environments (like Dev and Prod) in the Source and Target mappings of Lifecycle management so objects can be migrated between different PAW environments within a Planning Analytics Local install.
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Avoid WKC quality project blank due to some certificate expiry

Asset list in WKC quality project gone/blank suddenly someday. Feel like whole system done. Customer been told the reason is : some certificate will be expired unpredicted someday between 10-13 months, not sure which day. Could we give enough time...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Preserving job array conditions in multicluster

Job array conditions are widely used on our machines to manage when jobs are dispatched. Certain workflows require specific job stepping. Job array conditions aren't present in a multicluster environment. Our workaround involves submitting a job i...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Labelling a column changes access path

With table TB1(COL1, COL2, COL3, COL4) and index IX1(COL1, COL2, COL3), query: SELECT COL1, COL2, VARCHAR(COL3) COL3, COL4 FROM TB1 WHERE COL1 = ? AND COL2 = ? ORDER BY COL1, COL2, COL3; requires sort even though the order by is following ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Display Record Counts on Job Desing Links in Operations Console

When viewing the job Run history in the Operations Console, I would like to be able to select a previous run and then display the job design with the record counts shown on each of the links in the job. Ideally I would also like to be able to see ...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

PAW - change default picture of books and folders

In PAW when creating books or folders it shows the default pictures. The possibility to add custom pictures would be much appreciated.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Salesforce Connector - Support for Bulk API on Queries

Currently the InfoSphere Information Server Pack for Salesforce.com only supports the Real Time API for querying data. Please can support be introduced for the Bulk API to improve the performance of large data extracts.
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Improve the Aggregator Stage

The Aggregator Stage hasn't change for a long time and there are a lot of things that could be improved, currently a lot of things is done with sorting, keychange and transformer variables (or in a database connector) instead of using a Aggregator...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration