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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Need a function or pseudo-field to return the number of elements in a BSON array

Put in simplest terms, if I have a JSON/BSON record with an embedded array, I need to know how many elements are in the array. I need a function similar to bson_size() (which returns the string length of the total array) which instead returns the ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

support the configuration of route-maps and filters on BGP setup

We use BGP Setups for connection from IPS serveurs to our switches (client side). We need inter-IPS connections to have better network performances for IPS to IPS data copy. These connections use also BGP protocol. When we add these inter IPS conn...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to use compound indexes

In the below the foreign key does not use the compound index. Another index is created with adds overhead. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 add constraint primary key (t) constraint p1_pk; ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

SMF data for use of SORTL and z15 Z Sort accelerator

Recently we have had some issues and queries around use of SORTL by Db2Sort and currently the only way to track whether SORTL is being used by Db2Sort is to scan every job and look for the message "CNK558I SORTL INSTRUCTION USED". To report on usa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Sort for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Automated dashboard upgrade in PAW

Due to Log4j we did an update to Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.71. Afterwards we noticed the following message when opening an existing dashboard/book: Your Dashboard has been upgraded. Save now to maintain optimum performance. How can we autom...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Watson Speech to Text should return timestamps accurate to milliseconds for transcription

Real-life scenario: Researchers from Brandeis University, Boston University, Harvard, Boston College, and Northeastern University are investigating cognitive aging and biomarkers of dementia. Currently, they have been hand-scoring cognitive interv...
over 2 years ago in Speech Services 2 Not under consideration

Group level access to tickets

We are unable to grant access to all cases for a single system to all a team responsible for a product. You can either see your own tickets or all tickets for the ICN (which includes multiple products). We need a way to group people together so th...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration