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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.

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To relax DB2 primary group of instance naming restrictions

My organization has all the users and Groups on active directory. The groups on active directory always get prefixed by some characters which are in Upper case due to the type of group we are requesting. Also addition of this prefix add more chara...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

To add missing host level parameters in lsf_jobs_active and lsf_jobs_pending

Please add following execution host parameters in lsf_jobs_active and lsf_jobs_pend index Host_name, cpu_factor, host_type, host_model, host_group. These parameters are present in hostproperties.xml and hostgroup.xml loaders but these are not enab...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Add missing fields in lsf_jobs_pendingreason index

Please add the following missing fields in lsf_job_pendingreason : pending_reason_level, pending_state, resource_group
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Logical Backup

Create “loadable” files foe objects rather than table space dumps. Only base table contents, no indexes
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Migration from SMS/Raw to AS

How to move the thousands DBs which use a combination of SMS (syscatspace) and RAW to full automatic storage. Some DBs are 100+TB so unload/load is not an option. Need a date for elimination of SMS/RAW support to determine our priotiy!
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

RP Tables syntax

If the “INDEX IN” option is left off the index goes in the default TSP. There is no way to change this later
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

SPSS handling of Foreign characters

Data being extracted from a data warehouse contain foreign characters. There are characters are not part of the world writing systems. Any attempt to load these datasets to a Netezza Database always fails
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Snapshot functionality name is misleading

Generally snapshot means a backup at the point in time ,currently the snapshot functionality is the catalog of books , would be ideal to have proper snapshot functionality to back up and restore books , folders & security as the way it was dur...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Trash BIN

If the book is deleted its gone forever right now and there is no way to restore it, it would be great to have the ability to restore deleted books.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Audit Trail of books

We need the ability to trace every single activities of book creations , changes and specially deletion. so if any issue happens we have some idea of what happened and what to do.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration