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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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Optimizations of the "Run in background" dialog

There are simply too many clicks required to run reports in background. When I activate 'Run in background', more functions pop up. To get to the 'Delivery' container, I have to scroll down first. If I then activate 'Send report by email' and have...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Add syntax highlighting and function suggestions to Reporting's expression editor

Dashboard and data Module calculations support syntax highlighting, and possible functions are suggested as you type their first letters. That editor would be of great use in Reporting as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Now that Symphony Advanced Edition is properly reporting RSS and VSZ for tasks please update LSF Session Scheduler accounting log to include RSS and VSZ

Currently, the Session Scheduler accounting log always reports VSZ and RSS as Zero. It would be nice to report the actual numbers. I know from my Symphony training that the same was also true with EGO and resolved roughly 3 years ago. It would be ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Log a message at INFO level at the end of an event switch

The only way to know that you are currently at the end of an event switch is to switch to the logdir and see that the temporary event log files have been removed. It would be nice to have a log message at INFO level that informs the administrator ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Parallel Restart if MBATCHD is either in the middle of a event switch or within a predefined period of being in an event switch

Basically, when you do a parallel restart either in the middle of an event switch or just before one, the event switch happens in the foreground and not in the background as designed. This may be a bug, but in any event, if you prevent, or warn no...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Which Element Loads in Subset Picklist Upon Book Opening

We are controlling this picklist via a subset. Ideally, the PAW page would load with data corresponding to the first element in a subset. The only way we are able to have the page open to the element at the top of the picklist is to: 1) Change the...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

License Scheduler fix INUSE license token detection on same-server Jobs

The License Scheduler is unable to correctly identify the INUSE and RESERVE values of requested tokens (e.g. rusage[MYTOKEN=4], when more than one jobs run on the same server by the same user. Possible solution:This could be solved, if the License...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

BLU Load message improvement for SQL3119W

DB2 BLU load on LUW provides a less than optimal message for SQL1119W. It reports that an input data value has been replaced by NULL but does not indicate which specific input row caused the error resulting in no good way to troubleshoot the issue...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client on Mac OS?

Given the increase in Mac users, having the DB2 client available on the Mac would be prudent.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration