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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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Add ability for 4GL to handle lvarchar columns

Add ability to handle lvarchar columns in 4gl. Currently a program will compile but dumps core when it executes.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Functionality already exists

Need WebSphere MQ 9.x supported by InfoSphere Information Server - DataStage 11.5

Currently we are 50 percent complete of a new a Grid enabled InfoSphere Information Server - DataStage 11.5.0.2 build. We learned that this version supports WebSphere MQ - 7.1.x, 7.5.x, 8.0. We were expecting to install version 9.0.0.2 of MQ - see...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve existing ZOMBI handling with regards to both SBD and MBD process flows

It will reduce the persistence of ZOMBI jobs in LSF to a shorter time period. Here are the two areas that need improvement. 1) Currently, even though the SBD daemons may be running on a host, a job will remain in ZOMBI status until the SBD is rest...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow export of attributes to Excel

One way to further analyze the data shown in a planning analytics view is to export it to Excel. Attributes are a way to assign properties to members and can be very useful in selecting them. Planning analytics does not currently allow exporting o...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

virtual deployment

A large CPD customer from Taiwan have about 2000 GPU nodes using Slurm to running Kubernetes for AI jobs now, They plan to build CP4D on another stand alone cluster. They want CP4D utilize the GPU cluster but no need brake out existing mechanism.
about 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Log DRDA listener messages to online.log similar to current logging of the SQLI listener.

The DRDA listener (drsoctcp) is not logging any error messages to the online.log. The SQLI listener (onsoctcp) does log messages when, for example a wrong username is being used to connect to the instance: 15:45:00 listener-thread: err = -951: ose...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multiselection prompt missing checkboxes in interactive mode

Hello, we would liek to have a different presentation of multiselection prompt when we enable interactive mode in reports. Today to domultiselection we have to use ctrl. With many lines to select it makes it complicated for users and we have neg...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Improve Error Descriptions

Improve Error Descriptions Current error message are very generic and it is hard to understand what exactly the failure is looking at the logs Improve on the error reporting for users to understand the error without enabling traces to understand t...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific

Provide a function or variable that would display the MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific. This would be used in the Report tool win Cognos Analytics whether on-prem or Cloud.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add BigQuery Connector to Cognos On Demand Trial

Unable to evaluate Cognos because no bigquery connection available.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration