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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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allow ORACLE RAW(n) data to be used in a FS pushdown function

what reported in PMR 12893,227,000 treated as expected and a RFE suggested to help address the need
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Output rows to log/file not successfully read by Unstructure stage

Functionality to output rows that are not read succesfully from XLS into file or log
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

"INDEX ONLY" index scan should be used instead of tablespace scan when it performs better.

We were analyzing the optimization of the following query: SELECT MAX(A.COL1) FROM MY_TABLE A WHERE A.COL2= ? WITH UR ; There is an index that exists for MY_TABLE that has a first column of COL1 and a second column of COL2. DB2 was using a tablesp...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TD Connector functionality to use LDAP enabled functional ID to call stored procedures.

Request to introduce the functionality in the connector stages to use LDAP enabled IDs
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Preemption based on concurrent number of slots used by a user

LSF should support a preemption policy that supports a preemption order based on the number of job slots used by each user's jobs. In other words ... when a higher priority job needs to preempt a lower priority job, jobs from users whose jobs use ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] Search criterial persist

Persist filter and search criteria are extremely inconvenience for shared users. We request to add search criteria/filter to be saved so that people can re-use the query without interfering others
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

read multiple table names in oracle partitioning mode in Oracle connector stage

In IS v9.1.2 DataStage is throwing an error while reading two physically partitioned tables from oracle database using Oracle connector stage when oracle partition mode is settled . This functionality is not available in oracle connector stage. Er...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

[Usability][RFE] config file change log and monitor

config files especially consumerTrees.xml is often to changed. We would request a change to track who and what have changed.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

Dynamic File Splitter Stage

I would like a file stage that would dynamically create flat files based on a field or a combination of fields within the input data. By dynamic I mean that if the field being used to determine the split today has 3 unique values then 3 separate f...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable dynamic debug for unavailable hosts:? Dynamically turn on LIM/PEM debug log for unavailable host

Currently we have a feature to dynamically turn on LIM/PEM debug for a particular host in OK state, and for this request we want to be able to dynamically turn on debug locally for LIM/PEM on a host even if the host appears to be unavailable in th...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration