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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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Only allow the creator of a given map to delete it

Currently any user that has the ability to create maps also has the ability to delete them regardless of who the original creator was. This coupled with the current view in DVM Studio that displays the entire subsystem instead of just a subset of ...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

PAfE - Sorting with more than one dimension not possible

If you have more than one column in an exploration, then sorting is no longer possible. Only with one column per exploration. This is shown with demo data.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow all bjobs output to respect the LSB_DISPLAY_YEAR option for all output types

The parameter "LSB_DISPLAY_YEAR"toggles on and off inclusion of the year in the string displayed by the commands bjobs -l, bacct -l, and bhst -i | -b | -t. However the bjobs -o uses totally different logic in order to get time format is fixed C_TI...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

end-users of API want to show highlights/passages in context

The HB team has now wanted the same feature out of Discovery twice - in one case, we went a different direction because we didn't want to give tooling magic powers, in the other case, we wrote the feature into the demo. If an internal team build...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

CDA generate DDL to use binary data types

In customer's IMS application, PL / I Bit items are often used. In current CCDC, Bit items can be replicated as forbit data, but DDL sentence generation by CDA is not supported and it is skipped. Therefore, it is necessary to define a column manua...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

Q Replication to support MRI on DB2 for LUW

Currently MRI (Multiple Row Insert) function is said to be supported on DB2 for LUW after 10.5.0.7, but actually NOT. Without this function, QREP may not meet the performance requirements of some applications , such as PBoC TIPS2. https://www.ibm....
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

BQ connector parallelism solution for export job flow

The BQ connector has issues with exporting data from BQ to DataStage on-prem solution in a parallel mode. Would like it to work in parallel
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

IIDR heartbeat signal between Capture server and Apply server

If target server side system which Apply server works goes down by any errors, source server side system which Capture server works is not aware of a failure of another side.
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

Identify target instance as replication user to MS SQL Server

We have peer-to-peer replication configuration. Every peer work in its own partition. Tables that are part of replication has identity property defined on primary key column. Peer 1 (P1) tables works in the range 1-100M, P2 has 100M-200M, P3 200M-...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Maintain catalog column UNCOMPRESSED_DATASIZE

Today, the DB2 catalog column UNCOMPRESSED_DATASIZE is unmaintained. Having this column maintained gives the REORG utility the ability to calculate a more accurate average row length when decompressing the rows, especially in combination with VARC...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered