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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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Support Automatically Convert Numeric SQL Type(to Decimal or etc) for File Connector Stage to Parquet Format

Problem : We need to migrate data from SQL Server to Parquet Format. One of the data type in the SQL Server is Numeric type. We will run the migration job process using RCP. Workaround : 1. We need to change data type to another type, but we ar...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

support for snapshot isolation in .Net code

Microsoft already supports IsolationLevel.Snapshot in .Net code.Informix has LAST COMMITTED isolation level which is equivalent.For some reasons in .NET code IsolationLevel.Snapshot is not supported on Informix database. Also there is no way to se...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Ability to append to a file when performing an export

When exporting data to files, every export should be in a different file. And it the business requirement is to have all data in the same file, then it is necessary to do that manually with something external to db2.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Have License Scheduler Automatically Prune its Database

LSF License Scheduler can create a database directory that log's token usage by feature. Over years, this directory can become cluttered, and impact License Scheduler performance. There should be a setting in License Scheduler to prune that direct...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Improve RAS of License Scheduler

"Presently, License Scheduler, when placed in debug mode it becomes unstable, and will not respond to client requests due to all the blocking loops inside of the tool, including logging. It also lacks TRACE levels that improve the tuning of debug ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Improve License Checkout to Job Map Algorithm

Presently, the algorithm that License Scheduler uses does not take into account the License Checkout time when it runs into a conflict when there are multiple jobs from a single user on a single host.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

TFUI - Make validation and operation definitions re-usable across stages within workflow and across workflows

Many validation and operations would occur during many/all stage transitions. Currently the whole definition has to be re-entered for every stage required which is error-prone and time-consuming. Ideally it should be possible to define the valid...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

enabled "compileDSJob", "runDSJob" for DS-Developer-roles

"compileDSJob", "runDSJob" are currently enabled for DS-Admin-user-roles only, so this is working as designed for now. please enable APIs for DS-Developer-roles (like DS-Admin-roles)
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

relationship-type attributes should not open dialog to select relationship

In Persona UI, we would like relationship-type attributes should not open dialog to select relationship but to get list of item names as combobox. The reason is - usability of interface, all data stewards are affected. If you will implement it, it...
about 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW to have option to ignore QUERYNO clause of SQL on DB2 z/OS

The client has many SQL for z/DB2 production environment with QUERYNO clause like the following sample.    SELECT /* Comment */           A_ID,           A_NAMEÂ&n...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration