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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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Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Serverside job compilation

Job compilation is now available in Flow Designer introduced in v11.7 with API. Can this API be open or from command line on server
about 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Object search screen - lengthen space for object names

Currently, the length of a table name or similar object is limited to 18 characters. This is an outdated standard since Db2 can accept much longer names. The pain point is that it's difficult to view or search for tables and impossible to copy/pas...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Information callback procedure for Benders algorithm

For MIP problems using branch-and-bound the CPLEX API offers the info or MIP callback procedure which can be used to retrieve information during a MIP search. For the Benders algorithm these callback procedures do not work (CPLEX 12.7 throws an er...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Planned for future release

Mapbox maps with 1 point on it zoom past that point to max zoomlevel

When a Mapbox map ends up showing only 1 Point (perhaps through active filters), the autozoom of the widget zooms to the max zoom level, a few kilometers west of the Point that should be visible. (at least in SA)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Private topology to enable non OCP admins to perform admin tasks on CP4D clusters

Customer requires strict separation from OCP admin and CP4D admins. cross-tenant ‘cluster level’ components — like the license service, cpd-scheduler and cert manager (RH or CPFS’s) would need a cluster admin to manage Each CP4D tenant would have ...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

DROP Aliases listed with a single DROP command

Hello IBM In Panel ADB21A you can list ALIASES and there are some line commands. One of them is DROP. In some cases our DBA would need to drop a whole bunch of ALIASES at a time. And it is quite uncomfortable to acknowledge all of DROP one by on...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

DSNTIJXZ should create complete DSNTIDxx member

DSNTIJXZ currently produces a DSNTIDxx member that has a lot of default values, like BSDS name, WLM environments, etc. To be really useful, all relevant values need to be extracted from the running system in order to avoid hunting down actual valu...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

synchronizing the TASK_CALENDAR with the IYB_TIMER table didn’t work with the change to liberty

What we were trying to do with the V3 code for synchronizing the TASK_CALENDAR with the IYB_TIMER table didn’t work with the change to liberty. It appears that the V4 product uses Enterprise Java Beans (EJB’s) timers now. So to synchronize the TAS...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Planned for future release

DB2 Migration z/OSMF Workflow Auto Discovery Of System Variables

The current z/OSMF workflow would require that for each DB2 subsystem migration that the DSNTINST CLIST would have to be re-executed and the DSNTIDxx PDS member be populated with the current information for the subsystem to be migrated. There is a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release