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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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add 'from_host' field in 'Batch Job Filters'

add a new 'From Host' field in the 'Batch Job Filters' of the 'Grid -> Job Info -> Details' view to select jobs submitted from a specific host
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Group Means

Ability to compute group means with calculation over array of cases in variable (similar to python's: df . groupby ([ 'group' ]). mean ()
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

ADABAS phonetic keys

Classic Federation does not support phonetic descriptors for an index. For ADABAS, the phonetic descriptor is a key like any other and an important resource, much used, Classic Federation should support it .
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics support R-Studio data files: *.rdata, *.rda

The people with strong skill level of R-Studio are in the clients. They use R to prepare data and display the result with charts. Now they are searching for some great BI tool to show up the analysis result, but they still can use R to prepare data.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PA for excel Cells background colors

Cells background colors can be very confusing in PA for Excel . The styles are editable, but there has been no changes to the default. The point is it should be a default style for all users without any modifications
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to OQWT Query Advisor

We use OQWT advisors regularly for both reactive and more common proactive performance review The DSM tool seems to be working fine, although we really need the query and Access path advisors to work. One of my concerns with the advisors (OQWT (DS...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Drill through doesn't work on saved report version

Save copy of a report does not allow drill through
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Temporal INSERT syntax for application period temporal tables

We are using application period temporal tables with success. Application period temporal tables and syntax makes it easy to distinguish between the data values and the time dimension of the data.When doing SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE there is a spe...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CHECK DATA for informational referential constraints

We use informational referential constraints, i.e. foreign keys defined as NOT ENFORCED for some relationships between tables. When running the CHECK DATA utility for a table with foreign keys defined as NOT ENFORCED the foreign keys are not check...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Installation of CDC software requires insufficient space on /tmp

SLC's security policy is to have /tmp mounted with noexec option.if this default (Non changeable) installation directory has sufficient/free space as it should the installation fails. The only option is to temporarily fill the file system so that ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Functionality already exists