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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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RTM License monitor

Case TS001211168 - Created - RTM License Dashboard We have been bring up license monitoring on RTM and ts working great. We would like to get more of a readers digest view for the users that list how many licenses we have and how many are checked ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Refresh all DVM's sharing the same map dataset

In multi-LPAR environments, we will have a single DVM subsystem running across more than one LPAR. When maps are created in DVM, we would want all instances of DVM that are sharing the same map dataset to be refreshed.
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

304 VLDB - Altering Indexes to Change PIECESIZE Not Online

Change the PIECESIZE of indexes puts the index in rebuild pending status. We need the ability to increase the PIECESIZE where index compression alone is not sufficient to scale an index.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create a build of IDR CDC with a newer JVM to support AES192

PMR: TS001205284. Bancolombia requires that Oracle connections be encrypted with AES192. In order to allow CDC Agent to connect to Oracle, Advanced Setting should be selected and extra connection string parameters should be configured to allow AES...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

HPU V5.1 - Keep the connection in TSO / DB2 CALL / BATCH / UTILITY / CAF instead of ODBC/RRSAF (the same as HPU V4.3 version) RFE 123074

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123074 Communication switches to ODBC / RRSAF instead of DB2CALL. Our environment has the 'Exit' DSN3@ATH (Conections = TSO / DB2CALL / BATCH / UTILITY / CAF) which changes t...
about 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to translate document language on ingestion

This will provide the capability to select the language that the user wants in the index. Since the documents can be split/ retained as is in WDS and has the full text, there should be an out of the box integration with language translator to tran...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Pause Refresh

In Analysis there is a “Pause Refresh” button that is useful when building a report. This report stops the system from refreshing the data as you are busy making your field selection which saves time when building a report. Is there something ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration