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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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Can't search for strings in file when using Open/Tail for spooler files

Performing a simple browser search for the file contents doesn't give the expected results. If the string is not on the current display (or anywhere near -+10 lines), then the browser is unable to find it. The users open a file through the spooler...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

User customized - paths / shortcuts

Provide a way to add customized filepath shortcuts in the Copy To/From functions for spooler operations. The best way to do that would be to allow the user to specify these options for their own convenience, so that every user can have their own p...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

BSON_UPDATE array enhancements

Currently BSON_UPDATE supports only set, unset, inc operators. It is insufficient for purposes of constructing json arrays incrementally, like adding wihthin SPL foreach array element one at a time.Most important is $push operator, other array ope...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

A bunch of jobs dispatched together

The background:For some EDA application, it needs to start up several jobs together. After the jobs are started, they will connect to a server to register. The server waits for the registration from the jobs within a specified time interval. After...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

LSF LIM needs better support for Intel Xeon-Phi based compute systems

LSF lim uses up far more computation time on a Xeon Phi self-booting system than it does on standard Xeon nodes. Here is an example. After 5 days (update time set to 60s) on the Xeon Phi ekl001 over 300 min have piled up, while the standard Xeon s...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

In DB2 avoid creation of segmented tablespace

Need to have a zparm parameter to inhibit creation of segmented tablespace
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

[Supported] Mixed RedHat 6 and 7 among management hosts

Please certify mixed RedHat 6 and RedHat 7 in the same management hosts group. E.g. can I have RH6 as masters, RH6/7 mixed in SSM nodes.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered
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Support web services as data sources

Allow a Cognos report or dashboard to retrieve data directly from the JSON end point of a REST based web service.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Exclusive policy at consumer level

We would like to have exclusive policy at consumer level while currently at RG level
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

DB2 MQ Listener - Reconnect and resume processing after DB2/WLM outage

System: DB2 MQ ListenerActor: Business User needing new feature DB2 MQ Listener is used for integration of consumer/investment banking product offerings, improving customer experience. Description: We encounter service interruptions with the Liste...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered