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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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ssched jobs missing task information to calculate job run time

We graph job run time from the data in Elasticsearch provided from LSF Explorer. ssched jobs do not contain enough information to calculate job run time. We believe task jobs should contain the same data as regular LSF jobs
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Provide Dynamic Cube Designer option to apply a "case insensitive" interpretation of meta-data

Provide Dynamic Cube (DC) Designer option to apply a "case insensitive" interpretation of data source meta-data. This setting would allow the same DC model to reference a TEST and PROD version of a data source in which different case characters we...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQL skeleton for SQLTrace

SQL skelecton for SQLTrace Most of the customers' product system have to run almost 1000 transactions per seconds, it means there are about 86M transactions per day. so there will be to many SQLs would be traced by current SQL trace.so customer ca...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Restrict Custom SQL in Report Authoring to specific datasource

We have a couple of datasources which all are modelled in a framework manager package or a data module. So the users can only use the package or datamodule but not the datasource itself. For some datasources we don't want to model or provide a dat...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Informix 4gl based Datablades

I would like the ability to create database/SPL's using Informix 4GL syntax and features. I know forms and such wouldn't work but I could then leverage legacy into efficient data retrieval processes for for Java and Typescript to access
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Restrict Users from sharing Credentials to run reports/jobs

In IBM Congos connection going to "My Area Options" > "My Preferences" > "Personal" tab users can add other users to share thier credentials to run activities. This can't be controlled from capabilities or by customizing xml files.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

refresh fedration cache withouht the need to bounce instance once port number is changed from x to y

We have fedration defined from db2 to db2 v1 11 servers. once we update the port number of the fedration server we started getting errors like below SQL30080N A communication error "111" occurred sending or receiving data from the remote database....
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of retrieving large result sets

Performance of Db2 client/server communications in a network environment needs to be significantly increased in cases where large amount of data (100s of MB or more) are being moved between Db2 server and remote client. This needs to be provided n...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Multi-level category security

We have multiple primary categories with multi-level subcategories. The All Users group is added with the Viewer role by default. Because of inheritance, all subcategories are viewable by all users. In some instances, we need to branch the subcate...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration