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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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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

8.2 Workflow End Stages - set Notify Oversight to FALSE by default

Currently when editing a workflow and either changing an existing stage to an end stage, or creating a new end stage, the default setting for Notify Oversight is TRUE. This setting is not expanded by default so it is easy to spot the email is set ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 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

Parameter display WORKSTATION USER ID and WORKSTATION NAME

We use InfoSphere Data Replication for z/OS Remote Source v. 11.4.0.2 and we have detected that the following properties are not displayed in the details of the DDF SUMMARY in the MAINVIEW monitor: WORKSTATION USER ID WORKSTATION NAME These par...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

Allow JGate to run X wide on a highly available env w/op the need to manually configure each instance

We have the need to run several instances of JGate on separate LPARs on the same plex and configure DVM to load balance between the instances on order to handle situations where one LPAR goes down. Currently, these instances are completely separat...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager 11.1 should have flexibility to compare csv and excel reports

We are migrating our Cognos 10.2 to 11.1.x version so to get all the reports aligned properly we used IBM Lifecycle Manager to compare reports. As we know that Lifecycle Manager 11+ version do not support formats like csv and excel so we have to m...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alternate Job Collection parameters needed in mobile App.

In the current version of mobile app, all jobs are collected by job groups. Searching by job group or by the already existing search of jobID is unrealistic when you are dealing with jobs in the millions. Xilinx would like to see the addition of m...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration