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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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Ability to browse LSF documentation via version/point-in-time

LSF documentation is not versioned — the documentation you see is essentially the latest version. We often want to know when a particular configuration parameter was first introduced, e.g. if you are running LSF 10.1.0.8, is configuration paramete...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

UOW size for mass delete on table with data capture

requesting that DB2 generate reasonably sized URs when performing a mass delete action against a table with DATA CAPTURE set to CHANGES. in a specific case, we were rotating partitions on a base source table which was being replicated with data ca...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Replication 0 Future consideration

How to Change text of summary

Hi, I have a requirement where user would like to change the text of summary (which displays at last for list and crosstab report) to total or any any other meaningful name based on the ouput during the creation of dashboard. However, we have the ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PIVOT/UNPIVOT functions in DB2 for z/OS

Currently, the DB2 for z/OS SQL does not support any functions for PIVOTING / UNPIVOTING data. This results in extremely complex SQL whenever a matrxi/cross tab report is required. Such reports are very common in open systems databases.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Sort order in association grid selector should reflect the visible columns

We noticed when we configure the "Associate" button on an object grid in a task view, the default sort order of the grid results are on System Fields.Name, even if that field is not visible in the grid. IBM support confirmed that this is working a...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Data audit in IBM SPSS Statitics

In IBM SPSS Modeler, there is very useful node called Data Audit. It gives you quick and very helpful variable review. In IBM SPSS Statistics there is probably no way how to make this output (chart + basic statistics define by Measure for all vari...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Use all applicable NUMA Memory information on a machine to determine available Memory resources before dispatching a job to a machine

We were noticing that jobs were being terminated by LSF with the message: TERM_MEMLIMIT: job killed after reaching LSF memory usage limit.Exited with exit code 137. Yet, this was happening before the job had even consumed the amount of memory rese...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Fully replication support of Db2 data type XML with IDR Queue Replication especially for the case the Queue message size is limited because of using Shared Queues based on Coupling Facility structures

We replicate a lot of changes of our operational zDb2 data to a Db2 LUW (BLU) via IDR Queue Replication. The Db2 BLU is used as the data base of our datawarehouse processes. The Queue Replication uses Shared Queues which are mapped on Coupling Fac...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to JSON2BSON UDF

With the increasing adoption of Db2 REST, the use of JSON2BSON UDF also increased. The problem with this UDF is that frequent repetitive calls of this UDF will result in -904 "ROUTINE PARAMETER STORAGE" error. We have gone thru recommendations in ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cloud Systems Monitoring

IBM Cloud Ops and subsequently customers should be notified when outages occur. Specifically, if LDAP goes down or is not running, somebody should be notified and it should be started.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration