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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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IDAA LOADER - Terminate a...

Today, when we have a problem with a Load execution, we can use the BMC ISPF application to terminate the utility or use the DB2 TERM UTILITY command.When using Loader, there is no way to terminate a utility unless using the HLOMAINT Job .So, we n...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow to Hide Instructions in Reports

Currently, when running reports in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service (SOAR), the reports do not allow us to hide the instructions, making the report longer than necessary. It affects all users in the organization that have access to the platform. Pr...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Not under consideration

Distinguish on-demand and spot instances in HostFactory under one application

In the current setup, all grid jobs run on spot instances. The risk with spot-instances is that they are not dedicated and can be reclaimed anytime due to various reasons. There have been times when a long-running parent task execution stopped at ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Option to enable and disable highlighting common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard

Right now when there are common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard, clicking one of the common cells will highlight all common cells. Sometime this is useful but sometime this create confusion looking at the table. One way I learnt is to ad...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

During the assessment it was observed that there was Cleartext transmission of sensitive information like username and password in the application.

FixIt is recommended to configure servers to use encrypted channels for communication by implementing TLS.It is also recommended to encrypt the passwords , It is recommended to not send any sensitive information in plain text. It should be either ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Modules Packages

Currently users are using data modules to create their own models and one of the available sources to choose from is packages . when user chose 2 different packages ( even if both of them read from the same data source ) local processing will be e...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Sentinel License Manager and extra modules

We have a number of users for SPSS. We use the concurrent license that works with the Sentinel License Manager (SLM). Now it is so that we also use additional modules, such as: bootstrapping, Exact Tests, Advanced Statistics, and we make these mod...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Shadow Column Creation "online"

Currently the shadow columns are very relevant with ER however it causes an outage and I dont see why we cant create them just as we create online indexes. Its the same concept and this would allow HDR database servers capable of migrating to ER w...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Retain image copies after clone drop/create

This blog by Robert Catterall has a good description of the challenges faced in using clone tableshttp://robertsdb2blog.blogspot.com/2012/12/db2-for-zos-clone-tables-and-active.htmlRFE 119032 addresses a part of the outage condition that may occur...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CDC for Oracle support replicate rowid from source oracle database to target side

CDC for AS400 can replicate RRN from AS400 to target database, OGG can replicate rowid from Oracle to target. CDC for Oracle should support replicating rowid, it is very useful when no primary key in the source table , it can helps data reliable.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration