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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.

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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Vmotion support for pureScale

Currently State Farm uses Vmotion 5.5 in their VMware environment, which enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another with zero downtime in their VMware environment. PureScale currently does not suppor...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

request for functional enhancement to add special characters support for trigger.bat/sh

My company requirements for passwords are the one letter needs to be capitalized, one number needs to be used and one special character needs to be used. Unfortunately using alphanumeric password for trigger.bat script would be required in current...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Delete Virtual Table Using IAAdmin Command

Currently there is no way to delete a virtual table using the IAAdmin command or any other IIS API. This is particularly important when we refresh monthly data Virtual Tables to use them as the source for Data Rules / Column Analysis in Production...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

DataStage server jobs are failing due to no ODBC connector support to load data into Snowflake database

Currently, we have several DataStage server jobs designed to solve a specific problem and running fine to extract data sourcing from flat files & SQL servers and targeting to Netezza database. Now we are in the process of migrating the on-prem...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

NLS Value and script

HiI have to create 120 Datastage projects on a new server.I have to change the NLS tab for each projet.It will easier to do so by a script.(dsadmin command)I opened the PMR TS000813379.Thank you.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Render authenticated external images in non-HTML formatted Cognos output

We run a report that embeds an HTML image sitting on a non-Cognos webserver in the same domain. When running the report in HTML output format, the image appears in the report. When running the report in PDF and Excel 2007 format however, no image ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy with option Changelimit and Template switching based on changed pages

Whe are using the TEMPLATE SWITCHING with a LIMIT 16 MB in a Copy with option CHANGELIMIT. The allocation of copies is made during the utilinit and is based on 10% of the HI-U-RBA and not on the pages to be copied. In this way some very large copi...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TI Function or Variable to read tm1s.cfg

Would be nice to have a TI function or variable that can reference the location of tm1s.cfg.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists

ADM7007E - Logging The Process holding the database port when this error is logged in the diag could help us better for RCA

Part of critical Protection mode Restart, TSAMP has issued ipclean where the instance restart was not clean due to the below message in the logs. MESSAGE : ADM7007E The SVCENAME DBM configuration parameter, "50000", is configured with a port or a ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration