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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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Show percentage complete on ontape restore

Would like to see the percentage complete when running a restore with ontape. Currently this is only shown when doing an archive.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multiple queues request for job - consider taking in account queue limitations and lsf.resources for better job dispatching.

Today, when we submit a job with multiple queues (bsub "high risk") The job will be dispatched to a relevant queue by examine parameters such as queue status(open/closed), queue hosts, time-limit. In a situation, where a queue "high" have a ujob_l...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Filter Linked Visualizations When Filtered Field Exists in the Visualization

Linked visualizations currently only highlight when a value is selected in another visualization containing the same field; if a visualization does not contain the same field, then values are filtered. We need all linked visualizations to behave c...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

OQWT in DSM for Z/OS Query Advisor Enhancement needed

Query Advisor missing obvious SQL predicate datatype inconsistency While researching a production issue in all our production systems with a remote DB2 program, we ran OQT in DSM and found that the QUERY ADVISOR was missing a very obvious and key ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Platform switch Windows-Linux using OFFLINE database backup image

A platform switch from Windows to Linux (or Linux to Windows), would be much easier if one can use the DB2 backup image itself. Not necessary between two different DB2 versions, and it doesn't have to be an online backup, and of course platforms a...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Report Authoring Add frameworkmanager package and data module

Report Authoring Add frameworkmanager package and data module together as source
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

History of previous Global Search Terms

As soon as you click on one search result it will open the result in another tab. If you go back to the dashboard (global search widget), it will refresh and show a blank search screen. The search term/results should still show, otherwise you have...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Horizontal scrolling of the dialog window

When you have a deep tree with many child nodes in chain the deeper nodes are hidden in the right part, specially if you have opened the "Try it our" panel.It would be much more convenient to have the ability to scroll horizontally through the dia...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

New system variables $NCASES, $NNUMERIC, and $NSTRING

The following are FAQs in SPSS discussion forums: 1) How can I get the total number of cases in my file? 2) How can I get the total number of variables? For 2, sometimes people may want the number of string variables only or the number of numeric ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Default 'Reveal editable fields' during stage "Perform Self-Assessment"

Explore is the toggle switch "Reveal editable fields" could be automatically switched on upon a Control Owner opening a control which is in the stage "Perform Self-Assessment". This will allow for easier identification of a Control Owner how / whe...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration