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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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Changes to support automated General Diagnostic Health Checks

System: Applies to the complete InfoSphere Product FamilyActor: System Administrator We need to be able to automate health checks, but the current ISALite has two limitations that would need to be fixed:1) You cannot encrypt passwords as input whe...
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Reading files with the content-type vnd.ms-excel

Hi, We need to read files with the content vnd.ms-excel. All the files that we uses have this content-type. It's not doable to convert them. Can you please add this feature in future versions and allow us to do all like you have for the content te...
over 4 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Distribution key support for accelerator-only (AOTs) tables missing

Db2 PTF UI72862 introduced a new DDL feature to support distribution keys for AOTs. This doesn't work in the current Administration Tools Version. The DDL comments containing the distribution key definition for the AOT should to be passed to the a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support LDAP as a centralized storage for Oracle TNS connection data

Oracle Database support storing the TNS connection information in a centralized manner by utilizing the LDAP services and protocol.Support for reading the connection details from LDAP is a built-in feature of Oracle Client.Centralized management o...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Ability to control the number of XQE log files in logs/XQE folder

Currently there appears to be no other way to control the number of log files to kept in logs/XQE folder, other than manually cleaning them up. Client would like to have a feature similar to cogserver.log files to allow only specific number of fil...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data select and copy feature in Report Studio Active Reports Output

Hi, there is no way to select and copy the output data of an Active Report (MHT File) that is developed in Report Studio. So, a PMR has been raised for it and based on support suggestion, we intend to log this enhancement request as our customers ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to have app profile level settings to limit number of tasks executed in a persistent service instance

In a large cluster shared by 100's of applications from different LOBs, quite often, the a bad application workload might crash or disable servers by:1) over consumption of system memory2) filling up the root file systems with core files3) etcIn t...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

get user license checkouts from RTM graphs

Right now, we can only see current license checkouts in RTM. can we implement a feature in RTM that gives user license checkouts in a specific period of time, 30min from license usage graphs? I think we already have this enabled for host graphs. I...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Have License Scheduler Automatically Prune its Database

LSF License Scheduler can create a database directory that log's token usage by feature. Over years, this directory can become cluttered, and impact License Scheduler performance. There should be a setting in License Scheduler to prune that direct...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Allow BACKUP on a split mirror system to include log files

This request is about the following scenario: production database is running on HOST1 split mirror is taken on HOST1 (with SET WRITE SUSPEND) and image is taken to HOST2 we want to offload the BACKUP operation to HOST2 (to avoid the overhead of b...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration