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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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CPU affinity as LSF or compatibility with taskset

Good afternoon, we are currently working with MDS and multithreaded apps and have a question regarding cpu affinity or the possibility of adding specific information to taskset command while executing. When we are using cpuLimits, we see it works ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Ability to change the Identifier of a data source in Data Modules

Each data source used in a data module gets an identifier assigned by the system. This is seen in the properties of the data source. There identifiers are used to define data items in queries when developing reports. They currently are meaningless...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creating MX message via sample queues/flows

Dear support team, We already have opened a requirement (ID145570) but they suggested to address here a new idea with the following text which we already used in the requirement: Description: This requirement is NOT related to IIB, but to FTM SWI...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Functionality already exists

Limit open partitions to avoid very large rsam pool

In systems with a lot of tables informix can have a very large rsam pool. This can cause informix to allocate so much memory it starts swapping or in memory limiting versions (like workgroup, express etc.) to even let the engine crash. Sometimes t...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Consistent icon usage in IBM Cognos

Inconsistent usage of old and new icons in Cognos 10.2.2 The UI of Report Studio and others have been revised. However in some scenarios the old images are still shown, which breaks the look and feel of the UI. Example:1. Open Report Studio with t...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Send IFCID 317 data to SMF when stmts leaves cache

There is currently no way to get the text of a dynamic SQL statement when it leaves the cache. If one has IFCID 316 turned on, one can collect the SQL usage metrics in SMF, but not the text. One can get the statement text if one uses the EXPLAIN s...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Open a TM1 session in Perspectives/PAfE through non-defaultNamespace

We are setting up a multi-factor authentication (MFA) to login to TM1. This means in Cognos Analytics we have a namespace from type “ADFS”. Now there are some technical service users who cannot have a second factor. They can only login with 1 fact...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

all password expiry features required in IPM 12

we require below properties for implementing password expiry in IPM 12 FP8: by setting enable_password_expiry as true and maximum_password_age_for_users But this is very basic feature and it should also include below functionalites: sending user a...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

IPL Index Build performance

On large Index Builds with LOG_INDEX_BUILDS enabled the performance of the IPL thread degrades drmatically if the whole index cannot be held in BUFFER CACHE. Once a required page is swapped out of BUFFER Cache then the IPL thread reads the require...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Allow a Db2 z/OS Server to request clients set other JDBC Data Server Driver parameters, such as minTransportObjects or maxTransportObjects

In FL502 of Db2 13, IBM offers MODIFY DDF with the "RQSTWLB" option which allows the Db2 server to tell clients to enable Sysplex Workload Balancing (enableSysplexWLB=true) as long as the client doesn't explicitly set WLB to "false". It would be b...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration