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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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Support for "every" in the "alter table add partition" to add multiple partitions

The "create table" statement supports this syntax to create a table with multiple partitions: CREATE TABLE DOCUMENTS ( ID INTEGER, CONTENTS VARCHAR(10)) PARTITION BY RANGE (ID)(STARTING 1 ENDING 1000 EVERY 100) This will create a table with 10 par...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

block garbage unprintable characters from being used in report properties

We have had a challenging problem where users have been pasting in report names, descriptions and other report or object properties in Cognos Analytics. These cause issues in delivery of report output.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

SQL Data Insights should show outliers relative to all rows in the table

Currently the AI_SIMILARITY function only shows outliers with respect to a specific entity in the table. There should be a way to determine outliers taking into account all rows in the table. This would be benificial in the case of fraud detection...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add custom Kafka property to CDC to produce additional monitoring trails

We discovered that the producer instance for CDC is not being created inside the custom Kcop java class. It seems to be created internally by the application. However, this leaves us unable to add additional behaviors for CDC as a producer to Kafk...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Event Studio:Option to change font or font size in the Event Studio email body

The font size of the text for Email tasks in Event studio is small. Please provide button on toolbar to increase or decrease the size, also add button to change the Font.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

CSDK support for static links under the latest GCC releases

Currently the only way to produce a statically linked utility using ESQL/C is to compile and link with a GCC release earlier than 5.5. The latest is now v13. Messages look like this: art@Elbereth : ~/GoogleDrive/Latest $ esql -static -o dbstruct d...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 4 Future consideration

informix HQ

Current version of Informix HQ is not able to trap and sent alert for engine in block state.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Additional ciphers needed for NSS library

Hello, If possible, please add additional ciphers to the NSS library for the following Cognos version: 11.1.7 11.2.1 11.2.2 11.2.3 The additional ciphers are: TLSv1.2 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 We...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

64-bit support on Linux

Please enable 64-bit processing for Optim on Linux. Our consumers are forced to use Windows servers because of the 32-bit restriction on Linux.
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration