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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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Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Correct and Enhace Monitor Script - Purging logs

When below command is called via 'monitor.sh' performance collection script: >>> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch $PURGE_HOURS $LOG_DIR -m -d <<< the '$LOG_DIR', is defined to call as "LOG_DIR=$MONITORDIR/$PMR_NUMBER/$DATE" i.e. its running th...
over 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

Prepend machine's name to Assert files written to DUMPDIR

Scenario: The customer site uses a single network mount for DUMPDIR across hundreds of servers. Impact: difficulty in identifying AF files generated by specific servers. Current workaround: search online.log for all "stack trace for pid" strings...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Recovery option in PAW to recover a deleted folder

Recently I accidently deleted folder (and of course everythinf in it) from PAW. I opened a case in IBM Cloud Support to ask them to recover it but even they said that it's impossible to recover the missing folder. So it's gone. So I'm asking some ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide the http ports from backend of the IBM Product Master Operator

In the current IPM Operator, the deployed IPM application connects to URL with HTTPS however the backend connection happens with HTTP port. The client wants to prevent any exposed open http port. They would like to have frontend and backend to con...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

When Exporting Jobs Records Do Not Sort Them

Sorting the job records adds quite a bit of overhead to the export process.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Enable connection to Active Directory Global Catalog

We need to be able to connect to Active Directory Global catalog via default port 3268 as preffered way to interract with our AD (instead of interacting with global domain root having several domains bellow like Europe/US/Asia/... ). Cognos Doc: "...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Put time & geographic attributes into Framework Manager

FM as the development tool should handle all information on the data model. Adding overmodelizations in the portal is not logical and adds unnecessary complexity. It's a menu of too much
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to select 1 to many elements on a selector widget and have visualisations re-calculate

Cognos Analytics allows users to select multiple elements from a selection widget, upon selecting those items all visualisations that are synchronised to that dimension would recalculate the totals by summing the elements together from the datasou...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Timesheet Approval Helper to Show Total Number of Hours for each day as shown in time sheet entry helper.

Timesheet Approval Helper should Show Total Number of Hours for each day as shown in time sheet entry helper.
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Not under consideration