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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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Add additional functions to Optim Connect

Optim Connect should support some additional functions that are now being supported by the various DBMS out there. An example is the COALESCE function. We frequently have to convert queries supplied to by the business because they have functions u...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Process large reference tables by partition

As I understand it, reference tables will only be process with one thread at a time. However, I know that large tables that are not reference tables are spilt up by keys to allow for multi threaded processing. It seems that if you have a reference...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Allow record count limit for reference tables

We only do Archive for decommission. We like to test Optim against each of the tables to ensure we will not have any surprises when we run the full archive. It is very disappointing to run an archive and have it fail several hours into the process...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Batch or Multi Delete of Archive Requests and Access Definitions

Currently we have a method to test Optim archive against the tables that we are going to archive. To do this against Sql server, we have to take the Access definition and archive request and generate one per table. This causes a large number of it...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Add to DB2 stage a z/os read method using DB2HPU utility

We currently want to improve data extraction process from DB2 z/OS database performance.It would be nice to call UNLOAD utility or DB2HPU using DB2 Connector Stage instead of using SQL queries.As the bulk load method exists to bulk load data to z/...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable advanced routing based on Studio application

Advanced routing in IBM administration console allows only based on package, role and group routing sets. It will be beneficial to add enhancement to route based on studio application where report has been built.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View workspaces inside the instances in the Usage and Billing screen

Today, on the Usage and Billing screen, we can only see up to which instance is generating more cost. To view the workspaces inside them, you have to manually enter each one and check in the analytics tab
about 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Support or remove user defined dynamic resources from lsb.hosts file

Elim resources are used to present unique resources and values to the scheduler. Dynamic resources are not supported in the LSF simulator and are converted to static resources in the lsf.cluster file and in the lsf.shared file. However these resou...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 1 Not under consideration

Keeping the case numbering for each SP instance after restart or restore

as-is: If all cases that generated on low active SP instance was archived, and then the SP instance restarts, the case id for cases generated on this SP instance starts from 1. Archived cases might be used for investigation and that would be help...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

WKC in CP4D Search Enhacement

After implementing the WKC in CP4D we've found out that business users don't quite like the search in the UI. They said that they expected some sort a Google-like solution. As we're in Russia, users expected an automatic transliteration (the searc...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration