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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Enhance Session Scheduler Task Accounting File Options

Going over the available documentation on Session Scheduler, I’ve found a few gap under a single class of gap that will limit adoption, though I must say, the solution is not that far off from perfect. Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job speci...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Request for a new zParm parameter, named for example IXCOPY to be set to YES or NO in order to choose how DB2 creates IX

This RFE requests a new zParm parameter, named for example IXCOPY to be set to YES or NO in order to choose the default for indexes creation:- if IXCOPY = NO (default) DB2 will continue to work as now, that means that DB2 will create all indexes C...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Prohibit inoperative packages after drop function

DROP and CREATE of userdefined function KZZ.LEXSORT set packages KIS##01 and KIS##30 to inoperative. Error in IMS region BOKMSG8F: SQLCODE = -904, ERROR: UNSUCCESSFUL EXECUTION CAUSED BY AN UNAVAILABLE RESOURCE. REASON 00E30305, TYPE OF RESOURCE 0...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

In business advance with french language in report user does not see text item.

We create template for Report Studio with conditional report header (Text Item) (Content language FR or EN condition variable embedded intotemplate). As I understand Business Insight Advanced used same templates as Report Studio. In Business Insig...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Re-enable Double-Click action on DIMNM formulae

We are seeing in PAfE 2.0.9.52 that if we have a SUBNM formula, we can double-click it and the Set Editor is opened and we can select alternate elements. However we are unable to do this with the DIMNM. Upon double-clicking the set editor is not o...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Comparison amongst peers

Want a grouping function to show where a value stands compared to its peers. For instance, in the basketball data set – where does a player compare based on height for each team. One could create a series of functions in a derive node to accomplis...
almost 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

set a parameter value dynamically

I would like to be able to set a parameter value dynamically. I would like to create a report that suggests some parameters depending on the 1st parameter.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI - Add New – Parents, not obvious which would be primary unless user explicitly selects primary

In Standard UI – the Primary Parent chosen is displayed. However in the TFUI – if user doesn’t explicitly select a primary, the primary indicator is not shown and therefore the user would not know which parent is going to be primary. Primary is im...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

White-Out Conditional Formatting in Workspace

A client for a project I was recently working on requested consolidated custom reports to minimize the total number of reports they had to maintain. With that being said, the client asked that on one of the reports, we create custom conditional fo...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration