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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Support resizable jobs for compound resource requests (RES_REQ) using blaunch (parallel jobs)

A job that has compound resources cannot be resized - why?=============================================== We use blaunch to launch jobs with the following resource requirements. Begin ApplicationNAME = core8DESCRIPTION = applications that need 1 H...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

FTM MER ReDirect/Move – Limit target queue list in Move Message pop-up.

In the ReDirect queue, when the action MOVE is selected, the MOVE Message pop up presents a full list of all MER queues in the OU. The target queue list should be limited with a queue or role configuration option. Possible options: 1. All queues (...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

SUMMARY shows wrong values until all nested items are nested within Summary

When crosstabs in Workspace Advanced has nested rows (for example Products and Channels), creating SUMMARY on the first item (Products) shows wrong TOTALS until all Channels or Summary of Channels are manually nested within in.In Analysis Studio, ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reorg Index functionality should allow parallel partition processing of a multi-part selection as per Reorg Tablespace.

It is best practice to minimise the exposure of mission critical application workload to the impact of reorg drain activity. It is best practice to minimise the cpu, i/o and elapse time of database maintenance activity which is often restricted to...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PAW: Combining stacked bar charts and line charts

No possibility to combine a stacked bar chart with a line chart in PAW e.g. comparing planning version 1 in form of a stacked bar chart with planning version 2 in form of a line chart (current workaround is a PAFE report)
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Control Connections Via Profiles Using Client Properties

We would like more granular control over connections. Currently, the only way to do this is via a profile using an IP address. Unfortunately, the IP address is the static IP of a client. That client may house multiple webservices. If only 1 of tho...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

install libnsl automatically during LSF installation

In RHEL8, I found the follows error. [root@rhel86 lsf]# lsadmin limstartup lsadmin: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And I found "Known issues" part in LSF guide ment...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Db2 should request logs in both Log Archive Method

When performing a roll forward, and the LOGARCHMETH1 is configured to a external mechanism like Netbackup, and LOGARCHMETH2 is a local disk, Db2 will ask the first method and wait for the log, even if it takes too long for retrieval. In this case,...
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Lack of alerts for mgt1 issues

In CPDS 1.x the DNS availability is provided only through a single link mgt1 connection. This means that when the link goes down the system is unable to send out e-mail notifications about it as it is unable to resolve hostname of the mail server....
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

IBM OpenPages Cognos Framework is missing the IS_LOCKED field

The OpenPages Cognos reporting framework is supposed to include a field called 'IS_LOCKED' for each object. This field has a value of 0 if unlocked and 1 if locked. It is NOT present in the generated framework. The field is in the underlying RV...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration