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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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Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Oracle connector support for AWS RDS

A lot of our source systems are moving to AWS RDS for Oracle. We use datastage 11.7 to read from these source systems and load our datawarehouse also an RDS Oracle database.
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

PAW forecast: anomalies

The PAW forecast is too sensitive to anomalies now. You can select anomaly periods and exclude them manually, but it is too time consuming. We need an option to detect and exclude anomalies. The best would be to detect all the anomalies SPSS can i...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Request ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics

Request the ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics for the flexlicusageloader data loader by setting a configuration parameter in flexlicusage.properties. This would make PA consistent with the LSF License Scheduler where the path...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Change in roles from v4.6 to v4.7 not documented and incorrect display in CP4D UI

Roles were changed from v4.6.x to 4.7.x: Access Advanced Governance, Access Data Quality, and Manage Data Quality roles were removed and Access Data Quality Asset Types and Manage Asset Discovery were added. Two issues:1) There is no documentation...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Eliminating swap as the factor in the threshold definition

Using the Smart Memory limits in LSF with the parameter "LSB_MEMLIMIT_ENF_CONTROL" , there should be an option to define inly MEM threshold and exclude the SWAP threshold.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Index Access for MERGE sql

The sql MERGE should simplify the life of a developer. Instead of implementing an insert update logic you could just use a sql statement with merge. In case of a merge statement is to update an index column this index can't be used in the access p...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

HostFactory returns hosts with pre-start service

Currently, hostfactory does not calculate with pre-started service. but can not return the hosts with pre-started services. This causes the huge waste. Our user case for an app 4 scheduled hosts up 24x7 with 40 pre-start services to meet our short...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered

Support for additional DOCUMENT TYPES in Watson Discovery

We're dealing with many different document types and our ability to focus on Watson is limited but its support for only basic document/artifact types in Watson Discovery document injestion. We encounter many but by percentage here are our top 10...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Visual Modeler interface for CPLEX in DSX

In our current DSX offering we enable programmatic access with Python API for CPLEX engine to solve optimization problems. Leveraging this capability requires a user to have deep technical and programming skills. Iterating across scenarios with mo...