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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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Add readahead per sessions/sql counters.

Add per session/SQLTrace per sql readaheads triggered counters.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Array job maximum running jobs should be honored across multiclustered environments

Our users submit array jobs, but due to many factors may want to limit the number of running tasks at a time, not only from the source cluster, but total running jobs of that array for all clusters involved ( we have many clusters that use multicl...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

THREAD limit to be set per HOST or PER CORE instead of PER JOB

The current THREADS limit on a queue level is set per job while it has to be set per HOST or per CORE. That is because current limit doesn't reflect the size of a job so is the THREADS limit is 600 it means that a single core job can produce up-to...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

Help text for attributes

The current setup with a Help URL is not sufficient for our customers. It is to technical and not user friendly. Also it doesn't work with Firefox, Chrome or Safari. We prefer a mouse-over text or a i / ? button that you can click with a pop-up.
over 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Add DB[...] button to PAW rules editor widget

This button was available in Architect to make it easier for users to add DB functions to rules and not need to type in all the !dimensionname references. Adding this functionality to PAW would make the transition from Architect to PAW easier.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Capture cost and path information for New SQL to help DBAs determine if there might be an access problem

There is a new release of application code. Currently SQL/PA does a COMPARE of current and previous access paths. There is a hole for NEW SQL that takes a bad access path. DBAs need to know if this is occurring.
over 4 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Disable equal spread without disabling all adjustment types.

While running a processes were found to take significantly longer than prior executions. After researching the issue, it was found that users had performed an “Equal Spread” of data at a very high consolidation within the cube, which drastically i...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Parameter to suppress the generate of Grant Statements in Db2 Cloning Tool

When we clone tablespaces from a production to a test Db2 system we would like to suppress all authorizations on the target objects (e.g. tables, views), because users don't possess the same privileges in these two environments. At this time cloni...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Application and Plan Lifecycle Management

My users interaction with PAW is through either an application or a plan. When users perform UAT, they expect to see the same interactions. Life cycle management currently migrates assets (books) but not application and plan. These plans have to b...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Shutdown for InformixHQ

InformixHQ-Server lacks a possibility for shutdown. The admin has to issue a kill command from the command line with the proper (root) access. This is not at all satisfying. InformixHQ-agents can be stopped by pressing a button - as long as th...
over 5 years ago in Informix 2 Delivered