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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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Mechanism needed to limit shared memory dumping per instance, similar to the per session limit available now

Shared memory dumping is disruptive in a production environment, particularly if the shared memory size is large. In our environment, many sessions can simultaneously encounter the same issue and so we are open to many shared memory dumps occurrin...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

[Integration Requirement] Possibility to select different memory allocation libraries

Summary: Provide the possibility to select different memory allocation libraries (implementing certain allocation/de-allocation algorithms) via application profile entry for the SSM. Proposed candidates: jemalloc and tcmalloc. They become necessar...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Datastage on Hadoop: RFE: localize .odbc.ini automatically

What we want to see is that the ODBC connector stage can localize .odbc.ini through YARN, just in the way like Kerberos credential cache or keytab in file connector. So after each update of the .odbc.ini file on edge node, no manual intervention i...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

new BLKSIZE parm for TEMPLATE utility

For the TEMPLATE utility, I would like the ability to specify BLKSIZE.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

DB2 z/OS data type TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE for Information Server DB2 Connector not supported

The specific DB2 z/OS data type "TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE" is not supported by Information Server/Datastage DB2 Connector.If one encounters this type, an unspecific error comes up. At least, the error should be more expressive and detailed. After a...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

PAW Exploration scaling/sizing adjustability should be same as the other new experience visualisation types

The ability to adjust sizing/scale with the new experience charts I think is a game changer in relation to dashboard design in PAW. It therefore seems strange and also inconsistent why this has not also been implemented for explorations. i.e. the ...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

CentOS support

We would like to migrate our compute node to CentOS. Red hat is already supported and CentOS is a fork of red hat.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Delivered

MDM Beta: Question, what happens if multiple users are doing operations at the same time.

Is MDM Beta intended for multiple users to use the same project? What happens if one user is loading data and matching data, while another user is searching. Do things queue so that they don't conflict or is there a chance that the user searching ...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Delivered

MDM Beta: When you unpublish data, it should remove it from MDM.

When you attempt to remove a data asset it says "Removing an asset does not unpublish its data from MDM. Already published assets will be disabled in this list, but the data will still be available in MDM" We would like to request that removing an...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Delivered

MDM Beta: Error, can't load a 2500 record file but can load a 100 record file.

I can't load a 2500 record file but I can successfully load a 100 record file. The error in the job list does not help determine what went wrong. Attached is a screenshot of the job ids maybe you can track it down. My guess is some kind of timeout...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 5 Delivered