IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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dsjob command provides -logpurging option.

When the customer runs many instances of a multi-instance job at the same time, the auto purging process sometimes removes wrong entries in the RT_STATUS file unexpectedly. This behavior causes a serious result, because dsjob with -jobinfo can not...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS V11 Unneccessary Index Open & Lock

For index scans, DB2 is unnecessarily opening and locking an index partition.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

API or CLI for MDS management

Add support in REST API or CLI for configuration of all aspects of MDS Plans. This includes • Get MDPlan.xml• Add, remove plan (distribution tree)• Add, remove consumer• Add, remove resource group• Change resource group preference• Update OverComm...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

Do not store storeIDs for agents.

Dear ladies and gentlemen, We are working on a big datawarehouse project with many teams. For reporting we use Cognos Analytics. Our process to make changes to a report is to copy it to a development folder, make the changes and move the new repor...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mandatory fields shouldn't be mandatory if workflow next step is ‘Failure'

Issue: Mandatory fields shouldn't be mandatory if workflow next step is ‘Failure'. Reason: Mandatory to fill in attributes that are ignored and therefore not saved
over 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Blocking Executor/Driver on Shuffle Blocked host

If shuffle service is blocked on certain host, then executor and driver should also be blocked on that host so they are not scheduled on that host and failed.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Planned for future release

HPU usage

I have a question about HPU for Z/OS, and I’m wondering if you can open a ticket with IBM for me? The issue is that we would like to extract character columns such that they are wrapped in quotes, and if there are any quotes in the column, we’d li...
over 3 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide possibility to alter a COLUMN from NOT NULL to NULL and vice versa

A table was defined with COLUMN A NOT NULL but it is not posssible to remove the NOT NULL clause afterwards!
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

When ProportionSpreadToZeroCells=F allow paste of multiple cells to put zero on a zero consolidation with no error

We have had issues with users entering data on zero rollups and the data being evenly spread to every child, even in intersections that do not make sense. So we were excited when we found out about "ProportionSpreadToZeroCells". It fixed the issue...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - PAX exploration footnotes

We want to have an established footnote-like disclaimer on an exploration that is generated via PAX by any user. Could you please let us know if there is a way to have this footnote-like disclaimer automatically generated for each user when openin...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

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