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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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Postgres TEXT data type to VARCHAR at Optim level

Optim version = V11.7.0.1 DB alias = PostgreSQL 11.8 Optim is extracting TEXT data type from postgres database as a LOB data, so unable to proceed with the masking on LOB columns. But even if we defined as TEXT data type at database level, the dat...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 4 Planned for future release

Linking JN into a CA environment even with non-continuous protocol types.

Signal Iduna (German Insurance company) obtains their Cognos Analytics (on prem) out of an IBM Cloud Pak for Data license, which contains Cognos Analytics. In the Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.x bundle, CA 11.2.2 is the included version, which is current...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

[Copy] Actifio (VDP) AGM Manager UI does not display appropriate message when Snapshot pool is full

During the Backup restore process, when allocated Snapshot pool is full and an internal error gets generated, UI is not getting this message propagated to the user who is executing the restore task. User is expecting proper logging message or a UI...
about 2 years ago in Optim 0 Future consideration

Find special characters in WKC Catalog search

It has been found that the WKC Catalog search does not properly handle special characters (underscore specifically). The response to the IBM Support Case is that this is a limitation of the "light weight" search feature used, based on Lucene and i...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Add the following commands to the Query log, also add the total execution time to the query log output

Right now, many commands are logged to the query log, but a certain number of commands are not. Additionally, we would like to know the transaction time to process each command added to the log entry. The commands that are missing are: bswitch bk...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Add the ‘Db2 Tenant’ feature (enabling database multi-tenancy) delivered in Db2 11.5.5 on other platforms to the Db2 for i product.

This would enable applications to be offered in a SaaS multi-tenant environment with much lower costs than the existing dedicated partition or database options.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Ansible Playbook to Deploy Spectrum Conductor

We are planning to upgrade the OS to RHEL 8 on the servers hosting Spectrum Conductor 2.5.0. With this there is also a requirement to have automation in place. We would like to get an Ansible Playbook to Deploy Spectrum Conductor.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Not under consideration

Remove dependency on legacy library libnsl.so.1

Most recent Linux' OS' do not provide an easy way to create a dynamic support for libnsl.so.1 any longer and instead they link to libnsl.so.2* due to libnsl.so being symbolically linked to libnsl.so.2*. The library libnsl.so.2 de-contented several...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Customize date output format for bjobs, bacct, bhist commands

Current output for date format is Apr 17 03:06:23. Customer prefers this date format: 2022 04/17/2022 03:06:23
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Fix Custom Calculation validation error

We recently created a Case to ask about a validation error that occurs in Cognos' "Create Calculation" editor. Those error details are summarized below, and in this linked Case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002b4qa4AAA/on-custom-cal...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration