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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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LSF / Extend "span[hosts=xx]" capability to several hosts to optimize cpu utilization in exclusive context

There is no way today to optimize CPU utilization over several hosts, i.e. to specify on how many servers the job should be dispatched, and let LSF use all available cpu on these hosts. This works fine with 1 single host, using cpu range and "span...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Static link to an object in OpenPages should open in a tab in the same browser window, not launch a new window

If a user adds a Dashboard panel with a static link to an object within OpenPages that they have access to in their current profile, the view for the object should open up as a tab in the same browser window, not launch a new separate window.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Db2 encrypt data source connection setup

We are trying to setup DB2 encrypt data source Connection in Cognos R6 - R13 thru JDBC to support DQM . Currently Cognos r13 is not supporting and it's falling .Opened CASE to IBM and suggested to open REF for this functionality
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DataStage Ad-hoc SQL execution support

Using IBM DataStage 11.3, I observed that DatStage does not have flexible option to execute SQL and capture its output. I understand its doable if we use ODBC/Sybase stage but I want to execute SQL during sequence activities to decide on course of...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Require Symphony processes to run as non-root in advancewem

Commerzbank is using Windows 2003 Management hosts which is reaching its end of support and we are in situation where we have to move to another OS immediately. So far we have tested it with Windows 2008 but Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable ver...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Include option to always report access path changes.

Reporting access path changes should be independent of cost filtering. Some access paths can be detrimental even if little to no cost change is reported by an explain. For instance, the move to a hybrid join from a nested loop join can cause detri...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

PMML for Auto Classifier/Ensemble models

Make Exporting to PMML an option foe ensemble and auto classifier generated models.
almost 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

PAX doesn't support co-authoring in Office365

Our users collaborate and make edits to the excel workbooks connected to PAX. We use custom reports, dynamic reports and quick reports. Using the collaborate/co-authoring feature, multiple users make edits in the workbook at the same time. If the ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change data source on an upgraded data set

If you have an upgraded data set which has a data source with multiple data source connections (i.e. DEV and PROD) then when you replace the package you are not prompted to select a data source connection. If you create a new data source in 11.2.1...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Index support for "expression op expression"

In our environment, we have many queries with predicate: "expression op expression". As they don't use indexes they're performing a table scan. We would like DB2 to be able to use indexes to resolve this type of predicate. Examples: SELECT [id], [...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration