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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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Transfering free value to another project in LS immediately

< Condition > Let's suppose,- There are two prjects in LS, prj1 and prj2.- There are two license features, lic1 and lic2.- There are two free lic1 and many free lic2 are remained.- Between prj1 and prj2, SHARE mode, 50%:50%.So, for lic1, prj...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Not under consideration

Allow for a single DVM subsystem to connect to multiple IMS subsystems.

Currently DBCTL access to IMS requires that an IMSID be provided in the DVM configuration file. This parameter is limited to a single value and therefore a DVM subsystem must be created for each IMS subsystem. In a single test environment, we coul...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of except statement

Hi, For the first time I had a use for the except statement. It is quite simple: SELECT DISTINCT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB030_BDSLOG EXCEPT SELECT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB031_BDSLOG_SLET I want all LOG_PGM from the first table, that is not in the secon...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PHASE II : Support for python ibm_db driver on z/OS using z ODBC driver

The requirement is to offer connectivity to Db2 on z/OS natively by using the z/OS ODBC driver. The python driver has been enhanced to successfully compile on the z/OS platform, and basic validation and regression suite validation has been done. W...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add control setting to determine the additional text on the name of output files.

I have a report written in Cognos 11.  It runs on a schedule that saves it to the file system on the Cognos Server.  When they are saved there, it adds the “-en-us” to the end of the file name. For example: The report scheduled was named enrollme...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

DSM HADR data collection is missing Primary_member_host information on repository database

View - healthmetrics.HADR_STATS contains Db2 HADR Standby host details but does not contain primary member host details. The details is required to pinpoint the active side/primary when the DSM connection is setup using alternate client reroute pr...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Some of the characters that can be used in SPSS Modeler field names cannot be used in ADV​ of CaDS.

This issue is impacting users who use special characters on the field name.
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Allow storage expansion and extension during an archive

Need the ability to use onspaces, onparams, & API functions to manage storage allocation while an archive is executing. This is especially true with auto-extension of chunks and auto-expanding dbspaces by adding chunks automatically from the s...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

retain /etc/sudoers after upgrade

We are doing authorization through /etc/sudoers for admins to be able to login to the nz user or root. For example like below. ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/su - nz, /bin/su - root...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

backup resolv.conf prior to upgrade

We have a search path listed in the resolv.conf file. It is helpful to locate any server without using fully qualified domain name. The current upgrade is rewriting the /etc/resolv.conf file and user's home directories every time. Due to which all...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Not under consideration