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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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LSF: default duration for external resources

Manage default duration for external resources, mainly for license resources. Currently, default duration for external resources is infinite (job duration). Can you please give new facilities to: - manage default duration for external resources, s...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Kafka Refresh with Commit Stream Parameter should check Commit Stream Topic Existence at Beginning

Problem Description: Prerequisite: Kafka Instance Parameter kafka_bookmark_storage_type = COMMITSTREAMTOPIC Kafka topic auto creation is off/deactivated New Subscription with new mappings is created Target Topics are created Issue: Commit Stream T...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Modeler should not cast operands of multiplication to DOUBLE explicitly.

Modeler should not cast operands of multiplication to DOUBLE explicitly when the type of one operand is FLOAT/DOUBLE but the type of the other operand is integer. Users should be able to prevent this behavior with a new parameter in the Modeler Se...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio support for using parameter maps as data source for value prompts

In addition to the "query" and "static choices" options for providing data for a Cognos Report Studio "value prompt", also allow the use of a "parameter map". The parameter map's "key" would be mapped to the value prompts "Display" property and th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameter on RECOVER utility to override UTILS_BLOCK_FOR_CDC

We want to be able to use the new DSNZPARM UTILS_BLOCK_FOR_CDC but are not comfortable doing it as it prevents us from performing recover of a table. We don't understand why UTILS_BLOCK_FOR_CDC applies to recover as there is no choice whether we w...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

provide a parameter in exception profiling job

Please refer to case: TS004001032 The exception profiling job failed if the input data includes one of the following data: includes multiple systems SMF records Db2 SMF data other than IFCIDs (1,2,3) There are two workarounds: run OMPE RECTRACE wi...
almost 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Saving DOC DOM in an output stream

We are using DOC 3.8. The class IloDomModelManager provides an API to save the DOM in a file: void saveSnapshot(File file) throws IOException; Could we have a version of method "saveSnapshot" that takes as a parameter an output stream instead of a...
almost 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

At a Parameter to Allow more Flexibility in Kafka Topic Generation in KCOP

One of the potential customer uses Google BigQuery as their standard. The Google BigQuery can ONLY handle TopicName with Alphabet and "_". When I use the Json KCOP, it automatically generate the TopicName in following Format: <instance_name>...
about 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

In-built CP4D Cloudera Impala connector should allow for custom JDBC parameters

When creating a connection and selecting the cloudera impala connector, the form used to configure the connection does not allow for JDBC parameters to be added at the end of the jdbc connection string, e.g. jdbc:impala://<HOST>:<PORT>...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Allow for default parameters on dynamically executed utilities

Sometimes while executing a job from a compare on two objects GOC will dynamically execute a utility. In my case this is a REBUILD INDEX. We need the ability to add additional parameters to this such as SORTDEVT.
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration