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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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Control DB2 z/OS IFCID 376 trace volume

When we need to turn on IFCID 376 trace to get information, the trace is an all or nothing setting for the system. In our case, the volume generates in excess of 56 million IFCID 376 records in a day. 99.9% of them are 1108: Long client special Re...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

DataStage - Azure [Datalake] Storage Connector - Support parallelism parquet format

From PMR it has been confirmed that: Parallel Read/write - CSV and Delimited only support parallel write operations, rest of all file formats do not support parallel read/write. Parquet format doesn't support parallel read/write It is not document...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Spot Instance interruption notice support in HostFactory

AWS will send an interruption notice 2 mins before the Spot Instance is reclaimed. HostFactory currently does not pass the notice to Symphony cluster and application to handle the interruption. We will need this notice to optimize the workload for...
12 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

EC2 Fleet support

In SPCS-I-906, we requested launch template support with EC2 Fleet. Given the time constraint at that time, the scope of the RFE changed to launch template support with Spot Fleet. Now with more requirements from our clients, consulted with AWS, w...
12 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Allow the LSF Planner to ignore cetain select[] criteria

The current LSF Planner is unable to create a plan if the "bsub -R "select[blah>blah]" ./a.out" select clause does not match any hosts. This is very counter productive. For certain ELIM based resources such as 'freescratch', 'freetmp', etc. The...
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow the INELIBIBLE flag to apply to Job Slots and License Scheduler Limits

Currently, the INELIGIBLE flag works for several limit classes. Unfortunately, it does not support either SLOT or License Project limits. These are important for using APS with ELIGIBLE pending time calculations and the queue limit of ELIGIBLE_PEN...
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Prompting based on a filter in dashboard with TM1 Source or filtering based on measures.

The Dashboard needs to have prompting the same way reports has or at least filtering based on measure should be enabled. This would have a very significant impact on the usability of tm1 cubes with Cognos Analytics dashboards. There is need for th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

FTM MER Data Entry and Authorization Control

User Profile 1. TCCDE - Data Entry2. TCCAU1 - Authorizer 13. TCCAU2 - Authorizer 2 Scenario 11.TCCDE - Creates the message.2.TCCAU1 - Authorize the message.3.TCCAU2 - Rejects the message. If TCCAU2 User rejects the message, the message goes back t...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

dynamic sizes for specific reports using non-standard screen scaling in PAW

As we know that when we are using relative layout positioning, we are having some alignment/scaling issues with the interface of our reports in planning analytics workspace. The scaling doesn’t adapt properly to small screens. It is working as exp...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration