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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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Queued execution of ACCEl_COLLECT_TABLE_STATISTICS

We run a data warehouse application that runs very complex queries on IDAA. With several of these queries, we had and still have performance problems. IBM IDAA support suggested to run ACCEl_COLLECT_TABLE_STATISTICS to improve their performance, a...
23 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

When restoring content with "CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION=True", offer an option to merge the configration parameters from the old to new dispatcher.

It is not always possible to deploy content to servers with identically-named hosts. Currently, all of the configurations (including tuning settings and advanced parameters at the dispatcher and service levels) are deployed into the "old" dispatch...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Jobs API - have synchronous call to launch Datastage jobs

One of our customer (CNP in France) is evaluating the CP4D-DataStage. They have DataStage 11.5 and actually migrating to 11.7. They have a framework (BASIC code that orchestrates the DataStage jobs) that is the centerpiece of their DataStage proje...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

CORS settings should be controled by user in IBM Cloud DB2 service( like as Cloudant ).

In IBM Cloud, we can use DB2 not only via JDBC/ODBC but also via REST API(HTTP API): https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/db2-on-cloud/db2-on-cloud-v4 This is unique and nice feature. This could be a reason to choose DB2( than MySQL or PostgreSQL, .. ). ...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Enhance Pie Chart with Additional Dimension\Hierarchy Level to Support Sunburst Chart effect

I would like to propose an enhancement to the existing Pie Chart functionality in PAW. Currently, the Pie Chart supports visualization for a single dimension, which limits its ability to display hierarchical data effectively. I request an enhancem...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
23 days ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Enable/Disable SuppressZero for All Widgets on a Tab

Currently, when working with a page on a book containing multiple widgets (such as cube views and charts), enabling or disabling the SuppressZero option needs to be performed individually for each widget. I propose adding an option to enable or di...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

ActionButtons with dynamic Excel references

Dear Sirs, as you know, the cell references itself for the action buttons are not dynamic, only if using the named ranges. As you are updating PAfE and lots of things in the back-end, is it possible to give the possibility of dynamic cell referenc...
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted