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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 application to decide whether lock escalation should occur

Db2 for LUW has an instance-wide configuration parameter DB2_AVOID_LOCK_ESCALATION that controls whether lock escalations occur or applications receive an SQL error. It would be good to have a similar feature in Db2 for z/OS -- of course, not subs...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

To display 'WAITING' state in the WMLA hypersearch rest

In the current set-up, we have Notebook users as high priority and HPO jobs have lower priority (Prasad, can you please provide more details here on the priorities set for Notebooks as well as HPO consumers?). If our GPU cluster is fully occupied ...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Delivered

Format error message for custom SDK services

In custom SDK services within PAC, if something goes wrong during the job submission and the service throws an error, the error message can't be formatted with newlines. It is purely stripped text which isn't ideal for long and complex debugging e...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

one to many job mapping

-- the job submission user needs be one particular user, -- the job execution user should be mapped to various users. In order for LSF to support such use case, an enhancement is to add 1) a new bsub option to specify the job execution user 2) a n...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

Out of balance amount for the transaction should show in the out of balance column on each item

Out of balance amount only shows on the 1st credit in the transaction. For transactions that are larger than can fit on the screen at one time, the operator is unable to see if / how much the transaction is still out of balance after changing an i...
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 2 Delivered

DataStage Google Big Query Connector to use encrypted credential json file

Macy's is working on moving all our DataWare house to Google BQ. Currently, we have BQ connector on DataStage 11.7.1, but we can only connect to BQ using a flat pure json credential file. According to the policy of our company, flat file cannot be...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Defraging exclusive host

Owned slots are reclaimed even when there is task running on the host. From the support case above, it turned out a designed feature, to defragment a partially host so others can borrow. Some of our apps are critical with relatively long running t...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Delivered

Disable Reports tab in LSF suite for normal users

We would like to disable Reports tab in LSF suite for normal users when they logged in . It should be visible only for admins. We dont want to expose this reports to users. I logged a ticket with support and they confirmed that it is not possible ...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Ellipses in the Team Content provides a way to 'Create report'

Consumer/user do not have capability to create/delete report. However in the Team Content, by clicking on the ellipses located next to the folder/package, user can see ‘Create report’. A better approach would be to hide the ellipses altogether.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

API services required to allow attributes of an item to be updated from an external source

Real life scenario: Our primary spec contains a unit_cost attribute which is managed in an upstream system but is something we would like to display on the item as read-only for end users. When an update is done to the cost in the upstream system ...
almost 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered