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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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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.

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Installation progress details in Silent installation

Hi Team, Recently i used congos 11 analytics server installation on our premise and used Command line procedure as silent installation with response file. I observed that while installation it is not giving any progress of installation procedure...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

DB2 HPU should honour AUTH_COMPATIBILITY

Db2 High Performance Unload does not honour Db2 v12 zparm AUTH_COMPATIBILITY when it is set to Null. There has long been the need to lock down the Unload utility to minimise data leakage risks. This capability was delivered in Db2 v12, but it has ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provision summary report on data archival processing

An enhancement or a new menu is needed in Optim to generate and show a report on archival and deletion processing summary so far OR based on some filters. Below is the business case. Requirement : Customers have been using the Optim based archi...
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Enable chunk rename during log recovery

Whenever Informix performs a backup of the rootdbs, it automatically backs up Informix critical files (oncfg, onconfig & sqlhosts). When the Informix critical files are restored via "onbar -r -cf only -t <A TIMESTAMP>", it restores the l...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

LSF / Extend "span[hosts=xx]" capability to several hosts to optimize cpu utilization in exclusive context

There is no way today to optimize CPU utilization over several hosts, i.e. to specify on how many servers the job should be dispatched, and let LSF use all available cpu on these hosts. This works fine with 1 single host, using cpu range and "span...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Extend backup device support to the S3 API

Extend backup device support to the S3 API so storage profiles can be used to send files to object storage devices.
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Deliver a warning when the schedule end date is approaching

Is anyway we get warning or any message for ending date. We want to know report schedule end date approaching. So that we can extended our schedule or any automatically extend the end date.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make Select Into Global Variables dynamically preparable

DB2 for z/OS v12 currently only allows SELECT ... INTO in app. programs and stored procedures. It would be extremely useful if users could perform SELECT INTO global variables in dynamic queries.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Use SP DSNUTILU with IDAA LOADER SERVER.

We tried to use WLM stored Procedure DSNUTILU to run HLV Loader instead of DSNUTILB with JCL without successful. We opened PMR 16347,250,631 to treat this issue and we was informed that is not is possible, then at this moment we can not use IDAA L...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Ad-hoc SQL execution support

Using IBM DataStage 11.3, I observed that DatStage does not have flexible option to execute SQL and capture its output. I understand its doable if we use ODBC/Sybase stage but I want to execute SQL during sequence activities to decide on course of...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration