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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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Use correct DB type to read Sybase IQ data with Sybase EE stage

Today to read data from Sybase IQ database, we use Sybase Enterprise stage with Read DB Type = ASE but if we put Read DB Type = IQ, the job terminates with the status Finished whereas it doesnt work. The version of datastage is 11.3.1.2Enhancement...
over 9 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

A new environment variable is needed at client side to point the DDT working directory to a local disk

In current release, DDT work directory is controlled by SOAM_HOME ( under SOAM_HOME/work/datamanager/host:port). The customer wants an additional parameter to control DDT work directory explicitly and separate it from SOAM_HOME environmental varia...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Show bsub errors in flow history

Display errors or messages from a job submission in the flow history when a job has not started.Update: These messages should also be put in the flow emails!
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Event Studio: Clairfy language in Task execution rules > Event Selection

There is an option in Event Selection tab when editing 'Manage the task execution rules'.In the option called "When the following item is True for selected new,ongoing, and ceased events" there is a description: "Insert an item or calculation that...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt API: getValues() returns undefined if the previously input value was considered invalid

Using Prompt API it is not possible to retrieve a prompt value via getValues() if that prompt is considered invalid. The result is returned undefined which typically stops the entire javascript validation process thus leaving the entire prompt pag...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Assign same color among Table and Graph tab at Distribution node

When we try to make a graph whith distribution node.the assigned color among Table and Graph tag is different. I will put one data result with table & graph tag. I want to make Pass or .pass always blue, and Fail always red.
over 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered

Ability to backup/clone a database across the network (redirected restore)(RIMS)

Verizon needs the capability to issue a set write suspend IO command on database. Get the data to another instance at another location and bring it up. Informix has this ability and Verizon likes it. This is called a redirected restore. Verizon's ...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Allow exclusion of columns from row compression to reduce overflows on updates

We have many large tables in our data warehouse that hold historized data records. There are four date columns:- begin of visibility based on processing time (BAT_BEGIN)- end of visibility based on processing time (BAT_END)- begin of visibility ba...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Collect & Save DB2 Statistics Every Minute

Lack of “big picture” affects ability to tune DB2.When a DB2 performance problem is bought to our attention, the first thing that we need to determine is whether the problem is significant or not. Addressing an insignificant problem wastes tim...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

I would like to create a "non-inline" SQL function that delivers a result set in DB2 for Z.

I would like to create a "non-inline" SQL function that delivers a result set in DB2 for Z. At the current time, this type of SQL function can be created on a DB2/LUW platform but the DB2/Z platform lacks this function. I look in the DB2/LUW manua...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration