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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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ETL Datastage - Lower number of connections open toward databases during a job execution

When executing a Datastage job, connections which are open toward the databases (Sybase in our case) are open during the complete execution time of a job even if all "actions" are done. This should be changed (to lower the activity on database sid...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Restrict Copy on Package but Allow for Development Using Dev Tool

We would like the ability to restrict copying on packages while still allowing users to develop reports against that package. We have worked with IBM Technical Support and tried many options (refer to: 33942,227,000) but not one of the options rec...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA - DBCS character errors on IDAA table after loading data

Converting Service Request 53184,L6Q,000 to an RFE. When EBCDIC DBCS characters are loaded to an IDAA table on a MIXED=YES subsystem, the double width space character x'4040' is converted to x'FEFE' for GRAPHIC and VARGRAPHIC columns. This causes ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bar particular DB2 group members from castout ownership

Currently the first member of a DB2 share group that lodges group update intent becomes the castout owner for that buffer pool. In the real world some LPARs can be significantly capped damaging write/update performance for the whole share group. W...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Technical Specialist- Information Server

With the Amazon S3 stage, our client would like to include the date_created field for a list of files in Amazon S3. Currently this is missing. I would like to read the create date for a file using the DataStage S3 connector, but I do not see that ...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Spaces in Column Name - unstructured stage or any Stage

Our team uses dataStage unstructured Stage for our integration nd ETL. However, we have Column names that have spaces, and unstructured Stage currently has limit on Column names not to have spaces. This limit should be extended and spaces should b...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Custom SQL updating Existing Query Subject with new changes to the SQL

Hello Team, We have found some new issue in 11.1.7 , in fact we observed this in 11.1.6 as well. The issue is with updating the SQL query in Cognos report queries using Custom SQL option. When users are trying to update their queries using custom ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display the camt.056 fields in FTM DP

FTM DP is not displaying data for the below fields for Incoming and Outgoing Camt.056 messages. We need this to be displayed for Operations and customer service representatives. There is PMR# TS003856945 opened on this issue. However IBM suggested...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Not under consideration

How to deal host admin inactivity

The container SSH access to be LOCKED for system admins who are not logged into the host for 30 days The container SSH access to be REMOVED for system admins who are not logged into the host for 90 days The control plane SSH access to be LOCKED fo...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Future consideration

VS Code Integration to Spectrum Conductor

I am task to support the VS Code integration
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 1 Planned for future release