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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Allow use of Compressed SMF Logstream in Common Data Provider

Our site has implemented SMF Logstream feature with Compression as we're on the new z14 with zEDC. This is a much improved handling of the copious volume of SMF data produced. We have now purchased CDP only to find that compressed logstreams are n...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

GDSN, Change the way a CHANGE_BY_REFRESH kind of message is being handled. It is now being saved multiple times.

When recieving a CHANGE_BY_REFRESH type of message in the WWRE and passing that to the Global Local Catalog with create trade items, the tradeitems are being saved multiple times. It look like if the items get saved as many times as there are cate...
almost 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Export Watson Assistant Usage Information

I'm currently working on a Watson Assistant project and need to export the chatbot usage information presented in the 'Overview' section of Watson Assistant's 'Improve' tab. This section contains graphs and metrics outlining the bot engagement, bu...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Cluster Failback feature

We think Informix Cluster should have an automatically failback feature, that could physically priorize our servers (suggesting always that the primary node is in a site, for example).It would be just the same as using a Connection Manager, plus t...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to detect changes in data (similar to QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL)

When supporting a production environment, one needs to detect the sequence of updates, including before and after image. On IBMi, we use extensively the functionality to consult the journal entries (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/qsys2displayjo...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Adding forking child to sbatchd can prevent significant delays and cascading problems associated with slow cgroup writes.

Platform LSF's root sbatchd daemon on the execution host gets stuck while writing to one of the cgroup subsystem. This causes the host to show unreachable status, and no new jobs will be dispatched to this host. Jobs which were already running on ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

change in the way graceful exits are handled/reported

When LSF sends kill signal to job, based on the time job takes to complete, it sometimes return "0" exit code and sometimes non-zero. This leads to diff message being return by LSF commands. In this RFE I would like to address ::1. What exit code ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Report output page options should be available for reports with Full interactivity=No, in Edit Mode

We are unable to see the following options in the report output page, when we run the report from Edit mode in HTML/PDF, for reports having 'Run with full interactivity'='No'. • ‘Run as’• Save• Refresh which means that a report developer cannot sa...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Default hierarchy attribute for Search On for use in Workflow

There is no way we can create one hierarchy attribute as Default, Search On attribute for searching category in hierarchy in for use in Workflow/Collaboration Area?Reference Case Number: TS001854442
almost 6 years ago in Product Master 2 Functionality already exists

Time Dimension Extension

No description provided
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration