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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Modification of SCD Stage to allow custom date specification

SCD stage inserts new rows (type 2) with the effective date derived from runtime. This is sufficient for updated rows. We would like to specify a different date for initial records.
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Track a local directory duing job execution and report utilization details in job rusage

We would like to be able to, at submission time, specify a local directory that we would like to have LSF monitor the total size and files in and report in the Jobs RUSAGE periodically. This directory will be separate from the execCwd or the cwd. ...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

GPU report works with exclusive jobs

To use the GPU accounting, our users have to submit exclusive GPU jobs. We would like our users to submit both exclusive and non-exclusive jobs. Since GPU accounting is important to us, we have to configure our queues to make all submitted GPU job...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

HOST Var and SQL Text RFE 105549

HOST Variable and SQL Text features cannot be used as the granularity is ON/OFF where what we need is granularity by application on a DB2 subsystem. Sensitive data is not always masked so teams cannot view the data, this includes DBAs. Since bot...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create Column mask for any data type

With the attention on protecting sensitive customer data in our industry being very high, having a simple way to mask data on any table in any environment is a powerful tool. If a data element such as SSN is stored as an unformatted numeric, curre...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Logout - Browser's Title Bar

When user's logout the message that is presented to him is customizable in Application Text but the same message is also displayed as a document's title that is shown in a browser's title bar. Therefore it would be better to have additional Applic...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Additional object variables for questionnaire template are needed

We are limited to the below 12 field variables for objects related to the questionnaire template and would like to have the option to use additional variables. perhaps be able to use any of the fields on the 4 associated objects. •The identifier, ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Connection Monitor Percentage VS Numeric Static Value

In Monitoring Profiles>Alerts Monitoring>Connections , you can only set a static value for Critical and Warning Thresholds. I would like the ability to be able to set a percentage of a certain total. Those totals could come from the database...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Hover Not Working

When using a dashboard visualization that contains a shape, the value does not appear when the mouse hovers over the visualization. The current workaround is to: create two identical summaries add a shape to one summary place the non shape summary...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration