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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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DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
15 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

job resource usage correction

My developers always submit distributed jobs to the cluster, when their jobs ends with OOM error in one of the nodes, bjobs or bacct commands find that the job's memory usage is incorrect. For example , in server's '/var/log/message' we can see th...
15 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Submitted

Control loadbalancing type of db2u-c service in Kubernetes

DB2 only offers nodePort for external exposure. However it would be natural to be able to control the loadbalcing type (i.e. ClusterIP by default, but allow for LoadBalancer). Additionally it would be favourable to place annotations on the service...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted

HTML Item for Dashboard

We are an Australian based software company (Pronto Software) which bundles with Cognos Analytics. We are rolling out new Dashboards based on Cognos Analytics and retiring older versions built using Cognos 10. We have a pain point however - we are...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
15 days ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Jobs API - have synchronous call to launch Datastage jobs

One of our customer (CNP in France) is evaluating the CP4D-DataStage. They have DataStage 11.5 and actually migrating to 11.7. They have a framework (BASIC code that orchestrates the DataStage jobs) that is the centerpiece of their DataStage proje...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

SYSPROC.DB2LK_GENERATE_DDL to become a supported and documented feature and to match db2look

We are using db2 LUW V11.5M8FP0_SB35599 on Linux It is a DPF database. We are using the following 2 db2 tools to generate the DDL of the same database: 1) db2look 2) SYSPROC.DB2LK_GENERATE_DDL - the command used for db2look is the following: db2lo...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Submitted

New API operation for fraud marking a record in the whole cluster

The existing markFraud API operation receives as an input a URID that is specific of the API instance that will process this operation. This creates a possible information gap if the API instance that will process this operation is different from ...
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted