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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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Sleep processor

A user's job is to stay in an asleep/hung state, which shows RUN on the LSF side. (due to some zombie process) On the LSF side, I would be nice to have, if the process is in a sleep state for 10 minutes and then kill/stop the process/job. Having a...
21 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

SERVERNUM limitation need to increase

As you know, now servers are more powerful and can take more load, also there is not issue for storage and we can use SAN for this purpose so it is time to increase SERVERNUM limitation, currently we can only create 256 instances on one server . W...
21 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

enhance the functionality of expression editor in reporting to align with data module functionality

for example from your data module documentation: ability to validate the whole statement, or only selected segments of code. Preview columns and rows in your projected calculation, filter, or table. If the syntax is not correct, the columns are no...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support Text Formatting in Questionnaire Templates

We have a requirement to make some part of text in Questionnaire Template Introduction as bold and to change color of the text. But I couldn't do it, since rich text format is not supported.
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Data captured in long transactions with guaranteed delivery to destination

It is usefull because sometimes a very long transaction pass through the Capture process but can´t be delivered causing memory lack at destination. The benefit would be not losing the data transferred to the destination. One suggestion would be to...
11 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Needs more information

SYSPROC.DB2LK_GENERATE_DDL to become a supported and documented feature and to match db2look

We are using db2 LUW V11.5M8FP0_SB35599 on Linux It is a DPF database. We are using the following 2 db2 tools to generate the DDL of the same database: 1) db2look 2) SYSPROC.DB2LK_GENERATE_DDL - the command used for db2look is the following: db2lo...
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Submitted

PAW Applications - Manage security through PAW groups

Hi Team, It would be nice to manage security to Applications using the PAW Groups like we do with Folders/Books. At the moment it is possible to configure access to the applications for specific users only.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

removing project asset via ibm-watson-studio-lib for Python

https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/ws-lib-python.html?context=cpdaas The ibm-watson-studio-lib library for Python provides access to assets. Asset file can be created via wslib. However, there is no project API or wsl...
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration