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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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API or CLI for MDS management

Add support in REST API or CLI for configuration of all aspects of MDS Plans. This includes • Get MDPlan.xml• Add, remove plan (distribution tree)• Add, remove consumer• Add, remove resource group• Change resource group preference• Update OverComm...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

Do not store storeIDs for agents.

Dear ladies and gentlemen, We are working on a big datawarehouse project with many teams. For reporting we use Cognos Analytics. Our process to make changes to a report is to copy it to a development folder, make the changes and move the new repor...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Config of DB2 Federated Servers without CATALOG

Currently the CREATE SERVER for Db2 family data sources relies on a node and database having been catalogued using the CATALOG NODE and CATALOG DATABASE commands. It would be better if the host / port / location could be specified rather than the ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Blocking Executor/Driver on Shuffle Blocked host

If shuffle service is blocked on certain host, then executor and driver should also be blocked on that host so they are not scheduled on that host and failed.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Planned for future release

HPU usage

I have a question about HPU for Z/OS, and I’m wondering if you can open a ticket with IBM for me? The issue is that we would like to extract character columns such that they are wrapped in quotes, and if there are any quotes in the column, we’d li...
over 3 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide possibility to alter a COLUMN from NOT NULL to NULL and vice versa

A table was defined with COLUMN A NOT NULL but it is not posssible to remove the NOT NULL clause afterwards!
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

MDM CE Workflow Dashboard should display person name

Infosphere MDM CE Workflow Dashboard should display person name instead of “Reserved by Other”.MDM CE captures this information as it is displayed when we hover over an item in Collaboration Area. We want to see the same information on the das...
over 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

'parallel_mqthread' parameter for Db2 LUW

Customer operates the IRS both on z/OS and LUW. IRS on z/OS supports parallel_mqthread parameter , but that is not supported on LUW. He requests to support it for LUW as well to improve performance.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Poor deletion performance...

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Fileconnector and Avro

File Connector to generate its own Avro schema, and at run time. Anything that moves us closer to that, and further away from a) hand coding Avro schemas b) physically copying them to the edge node, would probably be step in the right direction
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration