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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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Index support to improve performance of recursive queries.

Recursive SQL on IDAA V7 have bad performance, because of missing index. Indexes have to be created manually on the IDAA database through the SSH interface.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Customer needs a new function that can easily compare source and target.

My customer is using IIDR for IMS for z/OS.(all DEDB)They need a new function that can easily compare source DB and target DB.As an alternative, there is a way to compare both unload data, but there are two problems.- Both unloads must be executed...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Support AVRO Format ( binary ) with HDFS Agent

Support AVRO Format ( binary ) with HDFS Agent
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 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 ...
almost 2 years 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 ...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Improve DB2 sliding scale algorithm (SECQTY -1)

The maximum secondary space allocation of 559 cylinders for objects of 64GB or greater is too little causing the number of extents hits the limit of 255 or if using Extent Constraint Removal it would generated many extents. For the cases where the...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Loss of Functionality in IBM Planning Analytics Excel - Browse function

In TM1 Perspective you are able to initiate a "Browse" (now called "Open in Viewer") at the cube level. in IBM Planning Analytics Excel you cannot, when you right mouse button on the cube in the Task Pane all you get is Refresh. If you scroll down...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Need a DataStage super operator role with export permission

We have a requirement due to SOX auditing rules that developers can have read-only access to the DataStage jobs in production. However, we would still like the developers to be able to export the jobs so they can be moved to the non-prod environme...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration