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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Use Cgroups to keep track of job's associated PIDs

There is a race condition where a new process could take the place of a just-ended process that was part of a job. LSF does not check if the PID XXX is the initial process or it is a new one. Furthermore, when this situation happens, it does not m...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Applying visual maps on dual Y-axis

I loaded the “Greenhouse Gas Emissions Worldwide” featured dataset from community (https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/gallery). In the dual Y-axis chart below, I can plot the whole dataset or a summary metric of the dataset. However, what I would ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Scrollable Legend when many items are plotted

I loaded the “Greenhouse Gas Emissions Worldwide” featured dataset from community (https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/gallery). I generated a scatter plot “sf6_gigagrams” vs. “year” and used different colors and markers for each country. Unfortuna...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

8.2 Workflow End Stages - set Notify Oversight to FALSE by default

Currently when editing a workflow and either changing an existing stage to an end stage, or creating a new end stage, the default setting for Notify Oversight is TRUE. This setting is not expanded by default so it is easy to spot the email is set ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Not under consideration

Rename a table shouldn't be restricted if the db admin doesn't have sec admin authority

After discussing this with our developers they agree that the ability to rename a table shouldn't be restricted if the db admin doesn't have sec admin authority. They agree that having the rename procedure automatically handle the recreation of RC...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Parameter display WORKSTATION USER ID and WORKSTATION NAME

We use InfoSphere Data Replication for z/OS Remote Source v. 11.4.0.2 and we have detected that the following properties are not displayed in the details of the DDF SUMMARY in the MAINVIEW monitor: WORKSTATION USER ID WORKSTATION NAME These par...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

enhancement to "force application command"

enhance the "FORCE APPLICATION" command to identify threads belonging to a particular database and purging the threads
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Data Formatting capabilities for Calculated Time Members

I have created couple of new Calculated members in the time dimension called MTD%Inc and YTD%Inc which calculated the percentage increase in Sales over current year and last year. Which is a percentage value. I would like to change the data format...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow JGate to run X wide on a highly available env w/op the need to manually configure each instance

We have the need to run several instances of JGate on separate LPARs on the same plex and configure DVM to load balance between the instances on order to handle situations where one LPAR goes down. Currently, these instances are completely separat...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager 11.1 should have flexibility to compare csv and excel reports

We are migrating our Cognos 10.2 to 11.1.x version so to get all the reports aligned properly we used IBM Lifecycle Manager to compare reports. As we know that Lifecycle Manager 11+ version do not support formats like csv and excel so we have to m...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration