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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Add easier support for Parquet/Orc to Datastage 11.7

Currently, in order to enable support for Parquet/Orc formats, customers must download 23 jar files with little to no direction on where to get them, then create 2 classpaths manually in environments. The well-intentioned current instructions to d...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

File Transfers for Large Files are Unreliable with /tmp folder too small

2020-02-18: PSA should log an RFE to provide a setting in pmc.conf to allow the Application Center administrator to define a 'scratch' directory other than /tmp.Also we don't understand why we can not submit a job with template cmd when the /tmp i...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Show Saved Templates on the Collaboration Area

Users are much more likely to require a saved template than a saved search as they will routinely do the same types of searches to find items but it is unlikely that they will need to reuse a search for a specific item they have previously searche...
about 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Add an optional parm to DSNTIJRT/DSNTRIN that can be used to specify the APPLCOMPAT level

Add an optional parm to DSNTIJRT/DSNTRIN that can be used to specify the APPLCOMPAT level for (RE)BINDing packages for Db2-supplied routines and related objects.
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Bring back summary of the custom step options in a job

It’s hard to check how the step options are defined, you have to do multiple clicks to check it. The classic view shows a summary. It is especially hard when one report occurs more than one time in a job. For example with different output formats...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

View another user dashboard without the edit option

I made a dashboard for a cognos consumer. I delivered it, the consumer when open it sees the edit/preview icon. I want the consumer to just open the dashboard, filtering the data and use the various drill down without has the ability to edit or sa...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Balance tasks between Resource Groups

We currently use Balanced Slot Allocation in Resource groups to allow tasks to be balanced evenly between resources. However, if Resource groups are heterogeneous, or if a Consumer can use 2 resource groups, it is not balancing tasks between the r...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Controller Web Exclude certain IC journals from Reconciliation tab

Elimination of intercompany revenues are often configured as a "one-legged" elimination. That is selling company reports an intercompany revenue. This is then eliminated and also booked against a cost account. The buying company do report an inter...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

LSF - CSM Job Script Failure does not result in requeue

If a single node in a large job experiences and CSMSCRIPT Failure the job will simply complete and not be requeued for another run on a different set of nodes.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Improve error description for incorrectly formatted date values

The request body for a createEvent operation may contain a client_timestamp property whose value is expected to be a date-time in ISO8601 format. If the value does not conform to ISO 8601, the operation returns a 400 error with a very general erro...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

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