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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
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Accurate TIMESTAMP values for the detailed DataStage log reports.

DataStage's detailed log reports do not have accurate TIMESTAMP values that represent when any of the underlying events actually started and/or completed. We have dozens of jobs that run for a half an hour or longer and without having accurate TIM...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 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 ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 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.
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

New metrics for REST Services

Users of OMEGAMON for Db2 would like to see counters for number of bound & executed REST statements.
over 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Connectivity for Google Big Query

Cardinal Health is trying to move all data warehouse to Big Query. Teradata is in content state. So, it is very important for Infosphere datastage (11.7.0.2) to connect to Big Query. I guess IBM is releasing Big Query connector as part of IIS11.7....
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 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...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add 'WITHOUT CURSOR HOLD' bind option

We have occasionally seen timeouts against DB2 catalog tables that trace back to long running threads from QMF for Workstation that are running WITH CURSOR HOLD
almost 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Templates should support defered tape Mounts

We use a VTL for our Tape Environment. For a VTL it is recommended by IBM to use UNIT=(TAPE,,DEFER) in all Jobs. DB2 uses templates to generate JCL. In this templates it is not possible to code a DEFER parameter. Is there a way to solve this dilemma?
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration