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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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Validate SQL should simply validate whether the SQL is valid to execute

Currently, while in editing SQL in DVM Studio, you can highlight the SQL and choose "Validate SQL". This option will run the same logic used when creating a view and flag, for example, duplicate column names as an error. In this case the flagged S...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Lift 32K limit on SQL queries/results

SQL statements that exceed 32K in their collective data types currently crash. For example, if you select 10 LVARCHAR columns of 5000 each, totaling 50000 you get an error, crashing the application. This limit is way too low and it is causing our ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to include an image in the screen tip option

t would be a good idea to store this image somewhere in the webcontent folder in Cognos installation.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

select task('onstat','-g mem') ONLY returns first 30k (Currently Hardcoded in code)

When executing a select when you want to run and "onstat" command, it only displays the first 30k and the message 'Truncating message at 30KB\ ' is displayed.Currently it is hardcoded.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide source variable for Chart legends, labels and other elements

In a multi-lingual environment we need to change the titles, legends and axes labels based on the user language. Currently the only way to do this is with Conditional Block which makes maintenance challenging.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to hide date of report

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, the date under a report was hidden. In Cognos Analytics 11.1.3 the date of when a report is created is shown under the report, as shown in the attached image.For some of our users this date is confusing be...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CMTools for Linux

Please provide tool like CMTools.exe for Linux.We are really interested in it's CMTop tab.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

After START DB2 LIGHT(YES), provide new status messages while waiting for indoubt thread resolution

When DB2 is restartet using the LIGHT(YES) or LIGHT(CASTOUT) clause and indoubt URs exist, DB2 issues message DSNR052I at the end of restart. After this message, there is no acitvity driven by DB2 itself, that allows a monitoring or identifying wh...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Oracle fastload Refresh method does not do intermediate commits

When doing a Refresh to Oracle using the fastload method, no intermediate commits are done. That means that all records are loaded to the target table before committing the transaction (and the fastload_refresh_commit_after_max_operations paramete...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Graceful recovery from any error with /tmp in install of CDC engine on Linux/Unix

Currently the installer scripts for CDC on Linux and Unix uses /tmp by default for unpacking objects deposited on the server at the start of the install process. The installer deals gracefully with the case that /tmp does not have enough free stor...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration