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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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gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Remove The Need To REORG A Table Up On Performing Table Alter/REORG Recommended Operations

Today when we perform certain operations aka REORG recommended operations against a table like adding columns, dropping columns, changing datatype of a column, altering NULLABILITY of a column etc. the table will be put in a state called REORG pen...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Integer Increment Function on Workflow

We are trying to use the Task Focused UI Workflow to increment an Integer field as an action on one of the stages. This is a common function usually handled via a Trigger. I can see that the increment Date field works with a set number of days. Th...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration

Add command to move data from a chunk to remove it

Add a command , at onspaces or sql task() , to force free a chunk, moving the data to another chunks with available space at same dbspace.With that will allow to exclude the cleared chunk from the dbspace.
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Populate Data Tray with FM Package Data

Expand Data Tray Scope to include data from FM packages. Right now it is difficult to debug data/model issues in Dashboarding.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dashboard filter greater than or less than

on dashboard filter is it possible to add a condition > greater than, < less than or >= and <=Thanks
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include/exclude fields from bulk update in TFUI & do not force update of controller fields

Please allow for configuration of which fields within an object can be bulk updated. This way, bulk update can honor the fields that are editable in a task view. Please do not force update/selection of controller fields. I understand why you would...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

New DB2z "LOCKMAXCANCEL" tablespace characteristic - cancel thread when N locks have been reached

Suggest a new parameter for the TABLESPACE definition (perhaps named "LOCKMAXCANCEL"). LOCKMAXCANCEL This would allow you to specific a number that represent the maximum number of locks that can be acquired for the tablespace at which point the th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Workspace No Autofit column widths?

Workspace cube view displays will not autofit column width to a viewable length. Double clicks don't seem to work either on the width marker.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Conditional Coloring based on a Data value such as products or items

To keep all the parameters and criteria in a database (Dynamic) not static like all other BI products Can't believe all these conditional formatting are still static
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration