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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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Add a bulk edit option for link sorting/partitioning

When sorting in the sort stage you edit the options of serveral keys together (i call this bulk edit, see picture aha2 and aha3), unfortunately this is not possible for keys when sorting on the input link of a stage. Especially when doing stuff li...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

every curve lines can setting Display values or not in Dashboard

pie line chart ca setting every line values display or not
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Copy on Package but Allow for Development Using Dev Tool

We would like the ability to restrict copying on packages while still allowing users to develop reports against that package. We have worked with IBM Technical Support and tried many options (refer to: 33942,227,000) but not one of the options rec...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA - DBCS character errors on IDAA table after loading data

Converting Service Request 53184,L6Q,000 to an RFE. When EBCDIC DBCS characters are loaded to an IDAA table on a MIXED=YES subsystem, the double width space character x'4040' is converted to x'FEFE' for GRAPHIC and VARGRAPHIC columns. This causes ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bar particular DB2 group members from castout ownership

Currently the first member of a DB2 share group that lodges group update intent becomes the castout owner for that buffer pool. In the real world some LPARs can be significantly capped damaging write/update performance for the whole share group. W...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Technical Specialist- Information Server

With the Amazon S3 stage, our client would like to include the date_created field for a list of files in Amazon S3. Currently this is missing. I would like to read the create date for a file using the DataStage S3 connector, but I do not see that ...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

add support for SIs in containers on Windows

Add feature parity for running service instances in containers. This page should be equally applicable to both windows and linux - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZUMP_7.3.0/management_sym/docker_overview.htmlTo the extent that windo...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

provide a parameter in exception profiling job

Please refer to case: TS004001032 The exception profiling job failed if the input data includes one of the following data: includes multiple systems SMF records Db2 SMF data other than IFCIDs (1,2,3) There are two workarounds: run OMPE RECTRACE wi...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Spaces in Column Name - unstructured stage or any Stage

Our team uses dataStage unstructured Stage for our integration nd ETL. However, we have Column names that have spaces, and unstructured Stage currently has limit on Column names not to have spaces. This limit should be extended and spaces should b...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Add HSTS config for root of WMLA Conductor

HSTS can be set for port 8443, 8543, and 8643 (webgui, rest api, ascd) but only at an "application root" level. If testing a port at the "server root" level, we don't see HSTS set. This gets flagged by vulnerability scanners, because the scanner d...
about 4 years ago in Openscale 0 Planned for future release