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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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Google Cloud Storage bucket region

We would like to use Google Cloud Storage stage to create bucket in our environment. Unfortunately it support only us-region
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Provide detailed information about User Exit interface in product manual

Some of the IBM software products such as IMS, Db2 and Db2 HPU, etc. provide User Exit interface to enhance the product's capability to customers' particular requirements. Such products usually have a corresponding chapter or appendix in their pro...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Dependency on systemd added in DB2 11.1.1.1 prevents installation in RHEL 7.3 docker container

Idea created for the RFE closed wrongly - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=103478 21 vote(s) as of Mar 13, 2019 We use Docker containers to perform automated testing of our products on various prerequisite s...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Controller Web Journal Entry Disappears when user clicks off the input screen

If a user is in the process of entering a journal entry in Controller web, and clicks off the entry window into another part of the controller web screen, the in-process entry is lost without any warning to the user that they will lose their work.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

RHEL9 support

IBM/Redhat has released RHEL9 in May 2022. We are looking to directly upgrade to the latest RHEL Linux version.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 3 Delivered

Make TSA start DB2 under system.slice, in order to gracefully stop/takeover databases on shutdowns/reboots.

Since init was replaced by systemd as the linux main process (in 2014 !), it makes huge difference the way DB2 is started. At server shutdown or reboot, the user processes are all killed, and only then systemd starts to stop the services. This beh...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Delivered

The setting to disable warning dialog at the time of nodes' reconnection

When you work in SPSS Modeler, you quite often make connection replacements between nodes. Like inbound connection to a node that has already been connected with another node. Having this node accept only one inbound connection, each time a warnin...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered

LSF support suspend jobs can release memory

LSF support suspend jobs can release memory
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical

How can we flip the visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical in Reports? Note: we are aware that the feature is available in dashboards - Item axis label orientation but we cant find it in Reports.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Provide "SQL Reference" product manual for DVM

(This IDEA item was written based on my own experience in DVM POC test at customer site.) So far, DVM does not provide "SQL Reference" kind of product manual which describes SQL syntax rules supported by DVM. Somebody said it is because DVM is co...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered