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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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New access path for faster first fetch with a good global time

Firstly, I don't know if it is possible. We can encounter this following performance issue : select on a big table with an order by. Depending on the statistics, we can have list prefetchs on an index. If the index is very big, we have to wait a l...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Assign an Icon to the Supernode Filetype(.slb)

Currently, when saving a Supernode to a file, the file extension used (.slb) does not have a proper file type description nor a custom file type icon.This also applies to the IBM SPSS C&DS Repository.The icon would need to be easily distinguis...
about 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Is a defect

Consolidation without AFCs removing AFCs

A customer is reporting that when a user with access to only part of the customer's company structure runs a consolidation without AFCs for the section of the company structure that they have access to, their consolidation removes the AFCs for com...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

better diagnostic for locale errors

We experience -21005 errors typically during loading data to the database. The error (undocumented) means that at least one character is not supported by database locale. Unfortunately it is not sufficient to correct input data fast: there is no f...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Create join indexes in DB2

Enable to create a join index like SYBASE.. Note that it could be great to join row stored tables with column stored tables.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Missing definition of "Indexable Types" with impact if selected or not on results on C10 Search driven by INDEXING

Hi L3 + PM, can you please improve documentation on what it mean to select certain "Indexable Types" . It is critical to understand if you would select an indexing typ or not as we already unfortunatedly went through a quite cumbersome learning cu...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User Mapping to handle GROUPS

Require to map members of a USER GROUP to a single userThe Groups that are currently used for Fairsharing usage see attachment
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Aggregate activity monitor

Add a table to the activity monitor for aggregating the data by statement text or section
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Change password at first login for OID LDAP

We want end user will change password of his/her log-in when first time logged in Cognos portal.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modeler support for Pivotal HD as a data source

Pivotal HD is introduced in our enterprise.We'll plan to expand Pivotal HD system.We request Modeler to support Pivotal HD as a data source hard.
about 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration