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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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read text files with carriage returns in parallel jobs

PARALLEL job's Sequential File Stage throws an error reading a .csv file that contains a carriage return inside a char/varchar field. There is no option to read the data within a parallel job. SERVER job's Sequential File Stage has the column opti...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Backport SNMP event for SOA_FAILED_TO_ACCEPT_CLIENT to Symphony 7.2.0-2

from IBM documentation the integer value for the error message is the following:SOA_FAILED_TO_ACCEPT_CLIENTComponent name: SYMReturned integer: 75089Error The OS communication system returns an error while attempting to accept a new client's conne...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration

Supporting block listing in Conductor Spark 2.3 and later

Blacklisting of hosts that had certain number of tasks or executor failures due to various reasons. This entails blocking hosts from taking more tasks and recording and notifying users for further investigation. This will also mean to reschedule f...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Record recovery events in SYSCOPY

I did a recovery using Recovery Expert but no entries were populated into SYSCOPY. This is a gap for record keeping and audit purposes.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow DSN line command on panel ADB21T

In order to find out data set name(s) for a given table space , you have to be in panel ADB21S and type the DSN line command next to the relevant tablespace. If you have requested details of a table and you are in panel ADB21T, you cannot find out...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

V12-CERT-2017 - Stop predicates in Range-list index scan (Accesstype NR).

Range-list index scan is a very efficient access for SQL Pagination. Whatever we use DB2 11 Syntax: Where ((Col1 = ? AND Col2 >?) OR Col1 > ? ORDER BY Col1, Col2 Or DB2 12 Syntax: Where (Col1, Col2) > ( ?, ?)ORDER BY Col1, Col2 In both ca...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Record recovery in SYSCOPY

When using Recovery Expert, I am noticing it doesn't record an entry into SYSIBM.SYSCOPY.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

In Planning Analytics Workspace, in the 'Column' visualization, add an option to display the value inside or above each bar (not only in the pop-up)

The idea is to add a chart label in the Column visualization to display the value inside.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Change to memory management algorithm

We use Change Data Capture in several project in our company.We identified a serious problem regarding memory management algorithm. Once a week we have a batch of jobs performing many modifications to replicated tables. This workload is characteri...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Change definition of the "_day_of_week" function for Sybase IQ

The "_day_of_week" function as defined for the Sybase IQ DBMS does not accurately account for the following two internal IQ connection properties: connection_property ('first_day_of_week')connection_property ('date_first_day_of_week') The current ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration