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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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Disable a stage/path on canvas

Be able to toggle stages and execution paths as on/off. Gray out the stage icon if it's been deactivated. During development and debugging you want to be able to test up to a certain point and but may not want to include every aspect. But if you d...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Rollforward to subsecond (ms, ns)

Rollforward to a timestamp with the following format YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.nnnnnnn
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Remove NetBIOS calls from Cognos BI

After much investigation, we have confirmed that Cognos BI uses NetBIOS when authenticating to an AD namespace using the UPN attribute. This should be changed to use DNS only.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Wildcards in ADMIN_GET_TAB_% functions

Example: if one uses a query like this:SELECT ... FROM TABLE(SYSPROC.ADMIN_GET_TAB_COMPRESS_INFO('SCHEMA1', '')) WHERE TABNAME LIKE 'ABC%' The Function will run for all tables in the given schema and after that will filter the output for predicate...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Request to increase client -server timeout

Current client-server timeout is hardcoded to 15 minutes, as confirmed by IBM Helpdesk. The timeout setting is too short as users will get kicked out of Controller and will get the error "user xyz is logged in". Thereafter another user will have t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Multi-row insert support for AOTs

Enhance IDAA Accelerator Only Table usage to provide support for multi-row insert from and external application/
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lock LSF daemon's memory pages to prevent swapping them out

As part of the discussion about the which NICE value should LSF daemon use, another idea to improve LSF resilience and consistency came up. See the PMR related. LSF daemons should never send pages to swap. When this happens, and a fix pack replaci...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Weibull analysis

I would like to analyze Weibull Analysis in StatisticsHowever, this function is not in Statistics.I think this function need medical statistics,Could you please addtional Weibull Analysis into Statistics?
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Content Backup/Restore

We would like the new Create and Manage Content to have the same abilities as the current Admin Console.., example being able to select a folder to backup to... PLUS, have the ability to lock down the Content Store access for Report Admin's... we ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Federation Issue on DB2 ORACLE COMPATIBLE databases when remote is NOT ORACLE COMPATIBLE

When a DB2 Oracle compatible (ORA) is federated against another DB2 DB that is NOT-ORAcle compatible, any select involving char columns results in not pushing down the request to the remote server and transmit the huge amount of records across the...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration