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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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RC_Account visibility in RTM Job Info fields

IBM LSF Resource Connector has gone through many enhancements, like job level RC_Account. However, this field is not visible in RTM. This new filed should be added in RTM job information.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting / Operations/RTM 5 Not under consideration

IBM Flow designer 11.7.1 - GIT functionality to check-in to GIT repository

We are using IBM Flow designer 11.7.1. We have configured a connnection to a git server and tried pushing/checking in a job to git and have also checked the option to include the .isx files and dependent objects. The commit works. However, we can ...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS Cloning Tool: Provide support to clone applications (tablespace cloning) using System Level Backup as input. RFE 123129

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123129 For database recovery and faster data backup's , we implement the system level backup utility. The request is, to use this files as input files for ta...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

LSF should store accounting data in database

The lsb.acct log file format is anachronistic and hard for customers to deal with. To get the LSF accounting data into a relational database customers have to write their own code to parse lsb.acct files (ether via custom code such as perl/python,...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

badmin ckconfig with -f switch to check lsb.* files individually

When we run “badmin ckconfig” – it checks for all batch files by default.It would be great If I can check only for a certain file instead of all lsb.* files – e.g. $ badmin ckconfig -v -f lsb.queues Looking forward to such a feature.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

When we run the report, we need a function that generates a dynamically permanent link

Currently, there is no ability to create a permanent link, creating a permanent link by using the 'ReportPath function'.In this case, if we change the File Name or Path, permanent link that we created before the change can not be linked.Like a Reo...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Let a change of a SYS*_GROUP in the dbm cfg be reflected in the db2audit secmaint.del-file next to/instead of in db2diag.log

For security monitoring purposes every 30 minutes our production db2audit-files are archived, extracted and uploaded to a special security server for analysis purposes. However very important information is missing: when changing a SYS*_GROUP, the...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Excel Import to Include all Characteristics of CSV/Text Import

The Excel data source node frequently identifies the data type of a column incorrectly. In the variable and fixed length text import nodes, you can override this behavior under the "Data" tab. This functionality does not exist for Excel. This crea...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
over 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration