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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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Add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Remove need to prefix numbers in import template with an apostrophe to stop them getting converted to decimals on import

If numbers in the import template are not prefixed with an apostrophe they get converted to decimals or exponential format if the number is large when the template is imported. Having to put that single quote in multiple attributes on the template...
about 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Admin Tool: Allow additional column filter options in ispf results panels RFE 123018

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123018 In ISPF results panels after selecting objects (for instance, panel ADB21T), the filter options under the column headings appear to be limited to va...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Admin Tool: Include 'DATACLAS' in 'BP' Batch Job Utility Parameters panel

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123021 Panel ADB2UPA has varoius space parameters. We wish to be able to specify a value for DATACLAS so that we can ensure that unload datasets are compressed. U...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Specific Encoding options on the list of Encoding Setting on Stream Properties and Var.File properties

Currently on the var.file properties there is setting for "Encoding" which allow user select following options:- Stream default- System default- UTF-8And on the stream properties, there is "Encoding" setting with option of "System default" and "UT...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Best life insurance in UAE

Want to secure yourselves from financial crunch? Term Insurance In Uae offers various kinds of term insurance plans which covers all the benefits required for life. It offers high return on maturity and assists to get hassle free death benefits. E...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Manually confirm whether to switch before TSAMP+HADR automatically switches

In the TSAMP+hadr environment, in the event of a failure, TSAMP will directly switch the active/standby relationship. Sometimes, it may solve the A machine failure recovery time, especially the AB machine transmits a large transaction log. Therefo...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Support Process Reeping Plugin

Support a daemon, that when enabled, will remove interactive logins from the host for users who do not have workload on those systems. This can presently be done through an ELIM, but it would be nice if it were in the core of our process monitorin...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration