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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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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...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Pak for Data can integrate with ISAM with virtual junction for Single-Sign-On

Some customers would like to integrate Cloud Pak for Data with ISAM which enabled virtual junction for Single-Sign-On. These customers have the security requirement that CP4D must be deployed in App tier and can't be access directly from user work...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Support KMS keys on Google Cloud Storage.

DataStage jobs that write to a GCS bucket, using the GCS connector, get error that includes " is encrypted with a Cloud KMS key, which is not supported."
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 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 ...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 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...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

MDM Beta: Allowing to select both Excluded and Map column in Mapping tab

Allowing to select both Excluded and Map column in Mapping tab for the dataset columns. There should no way to add data from multiple files (data set) to single entity.
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 4 Not under consideration

Cognos for Office Excel Import new option for Excel Data only

In Cognos Web UI you can export any report with the Option "Excel Data". If you choose this option the export doesn't take any formatting option or grouping option from the report. In Cognos for Office Excel Add-In you can choose the option "Ingno...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alternate Job Collection parameters needed in mobile App.

In the current version of mobile app, all jobs are collected by job groups. Searching by job group or by the already existing search of jobID is unrealistic when you are dealing with jobs in the millions. Xilinx would like to see the addition of m...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

badmin should not call bhosts, bqueues command

During testing, noted that badmin hclose/qclose, hopen/qopen commands also issues bhosts and bqueues command respectively. bhosts/bqueues query commands should be for end users and LSF binaries should not call this commands like bhosts etc and pul...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Provide option not automatically getting into new sub-category right after creation

Provide option not automatically getting into new sub-category right after creation
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration