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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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Remove the OBID limitations in the workfile database

Aapplication threads that perform OPEN / FETCH / CLOSE many many times in a loop without performing a COMMIT can exhaust the OBID limit and suffer SQLCODE -497 From a recent SR....... We see in the dump a SELECT statement using insensitive scrolla...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable registering SSL connection information for databases cataloged in LDAP.

For databases enabled with SSL connectivity, it would be useful to be able to register the protocol and certificate storage information in the LDAP catalogs as well. Currently the db2dsdriver.cfg supports including this information as part of a da...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Need a WKC API to add or modify terms to several columns with different terms in each column using a single API call.

Details: We need the WKC API to add or modify terms to several columns with different terms in each column using a single API call. With this functionality, excessive API calls for a single data asset will be avoided. The terms of entire columns i...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web error handling (with relation to invalid actualities / submissions)

With current version of Controller (v11), if you have a 'rogue' (invalid) submission (where it refers to an actuality that has been deleted in the past, so no longer exists) then it is impossible to launch Controller Web. Specifically, as soon ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect

LSF: tmp (in tmpfs) monitoring when cgroup enabled

when cgroup is enabled on both OS & LSF, it's now possible to account tmp usage for jobs when /tmp FS is in tmpfs. ("cache" value of "memory.stat" cgroup file, that can be excluded from swap using "LSB_CGROUP_MEM_INCLUDE_CACHE" parameter) Is i...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

To allow re adding the member in the grouping through addPartyGroupingAssociation service.

addPartyGroupingAssociation service does not allow to add the party back to the grouping if the party was earlier part of the grouping and the grouping association has been end dated
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Handle the suspended state the engine goes into, when Db2 RRSAF connectivity is not available at start up.

Scenario: Upon startup of the Change Data Capture for Db2 z/OS engine, if it encounters Db2 RRSAF connectivity is not yet available, the engine goes into a suspended state. It does not drive any retries nor does it shut down. It remains in the sus...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

TCH admn.008 (response to partrep msg) need to stored in database and should be able see from OAC

TCH admn.008 (response to partrep msg) need to stored in database and should be able see from OAC The issue is When the connectors were started, they all sent an participant report request to TCH. The two TCH sites, however, do not report the same...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 0 Not under consideration

Fix code to address network bottleneck for backups

Running a backup of 70 TB currently takes up around 14 hours which is a lot. With fast backup storage backup could be completed in 2-3 hours. Problem is that despite the CPDS system having 2x25Gb network it should be able to write backups at 50Gb/...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration