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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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Source data type in Catalog

The source data type is not visible in the catalog. The type that is displayed in not the actual Data type instead it is the "Inferred data type" and this is fully dependendent on the sampling used in the Metadata enrichment at project.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Testing coverage improvement request for DB2 on z/OS

The background of this request is the following PMR/APARs for DB2 on z/OS: PMR-72914, APAR-PI94071 PMR-72966, APAR-PI96017 PMR-73053, APAR-PI96110The customer encountered two-month delay of their integration testing due to the series of problems i...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

DataStage connector for SalesForce should attempt reconnecting several times if connection is temporarily interrupted

This is referring to IBM Infosphere DataStage v11.5! I could not find this exact product in the list.ETL jobs that are connecting to SalesForce to fetch data do not extract all available data reliably. Sometimes the connection is briefly interrupt...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

IDAA should keep informat...

Currently IDAA does not keep information about partitions of a table (defined in DB2 and IDAA) that are loaded only in IDAA using IDAA LOADER with the option IDAA_ONLY. From stored procedure ACCEL_GET_TABLES_DETAILS, the partitions appears as regu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Delivered

Visibility dynamic statement cache users of tables involved in resource unavailable on an EXCHANGE DATA

EXCHANGE DATA failing with -904 rc00E70081 DSNT408I SQLCODE = -904, ERROR: UNSUCCESSFUL EXECUTION CAUSED BY AN UNAVAILABLE RESOURCE. REASON 00E70081, TYPE OF RESOURCE 00000A00, AND RESOURCE NAME PCPS0004. ADVSRY_ACCT_ACT_14566 DSNT500I -PROD DSNXI...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Layout woes related to resize and legends

See my video that shows this issue at https://youtu.be/oaDDp73vMsc When creating Dashboards ...Chart legends tend to prefer adding white space over showing the full legend text. I have to resize the chart to be too large just to show the full lege...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cleanup user details with bqueues -lr output if they don't have running/done jobs in system

Currently, we can find thousands of entries for all users even though they have ZERO STARTED jobs as listed in bqueues -lr output. For some of larger farms, these entries are close to 7M records and bqueues -lr takes long time to return the data. ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Delivered

Change in roles from v4.6 to v4.7 not documented and incorrect display in CP4D UI

Roles were changed from v4.6.x to 4.7.x: Access Advanced Governance, Access Data Quality, and Manage Data Quality roles were removed and Access Data Quality Asset Types and Manage Asset Discovery were added. Two issues:1) There is no documentation...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Adding functionality to BigQuery to report total rows modified after the AFTER-SQL executes.

We are loading Data into Google BigQuery via the BQ stage. We would like to know the total rows impacted after the stage completes.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Do not chart missing values as zero (0)

When graphing a comparison of Budget 12 months vs Actual partial year - using PAW - the partial year series data point will drop to zero for those future periods not completed yet for Actual. In Excel we graph TM1 data comparing 12 month data seri...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered