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


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Allow RESTORE TO FUTURE POINT WITHOUT HAVING THE INCREMENTAL/DELTA AVAILABLE

We would very much appreciate the ability to RESTORE existing databases into a new database via a FULL ONLINE backup and SUBSEQUENTLY APPLY AN INCREMENTAL.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Add ability to merge data in data sets instead of overwriting

Currently when edit data set in My Data Sets in the way to upload a new file into existing DB then existing data in DB will be overwritten. The ability is requested to be able to merge the new data with existing data in DB. A comfortable way would...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Handling unsupported characters

Suppose an application tries to insert a character that is not supported by DB_LOCALE. Then instead of throwing an error, a pre-defined character (e.g. an inverted question mark "¿") should be inserted.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

402 VLDB - DB2 Zparm with Variable Options

DB2 Zparm with Variable Options We have a large number of DB2's to maintain.Most of the DB2's run with the same Zparm values except for the following:-Catalog HLQ, IRLM name, ARC HLQ, Member ID, Data sharing detail and DDF detail. If these values ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

custom cgroup settings

We need to enable cgroup in a custom method. Currently , these settings are for all servers in cluster. LSF_PROCESS_TRACKING=Y LSF_LINUX_CGROUP_ACCT=Y I dont want to enable it for all servers as I know some servers which run specific jobs will alw...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Use Microsft SMTP server Office 365 TLS

I want to use our SMTP Office365 (cloud Microssoft) for sending emails from COGNOS. Microsft uses TLS. The support said me that TLS is not supported by IBM COGNOS.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Workspace Tab and Widget movement flexibility

When utilizing a Cognos Workspace for building dashboards there should be more flexibility to adjust and organize the functionality of objects. Tabs and all the widgets should be center aligned. The widget refresh icon should be in center of the s...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Temporal Causal Modeling Scenario Builder Suggestion

After creating a Temporal Causal Model and saving it, you can use it to run scenarios based on altering the predictors values (e.g. a 5% increase in variable X) and what impact this will have on your forecast. The problem is that the scenarios onl...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

oncheck should check the Timeseries data associated with a table

From the docs 'Use the oncheck utility to check specified disk structures for inconsistencies, repair inconsistent index structures, and display information about disk structures.' However, if a table has TimeSeries data associated with it the TS ...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

License Scheduler licence allocation when jobs need multiple licences

LS assigns licences to the licence project with the lowest accumulated usage, however if the job queuing needs more than the number of licences available they won't be reassigned to another licence project with a job queuing that can use them.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration