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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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Validate SQL should simply validate whether the SQL is valid to execute

Currently, while in editing SQL in DVM Studio, you can highlight the SQL and choose "Validate SQL". This option will run the same logic used when creating a view and flag, for example, duplicate column names as an error. In this case the flagged S...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Informix HQ should have a dark theme like grafana

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over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Planned for future release

Put quick references to help menu

The quick references area takes up space, but it is present on the home screen and is not perinating. Even if the proxi company allows access to youtube, once we have done the tour we come back more. And the presence of this zonne annoys - my cust...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Support for ON UPDATE CASCADE

Use case: There is a table called release with a primary key id of type integer and an additional column name (the release name). And further tables (e.g. table_x, table_y, …) with a reference (foreign key) to release.id. The working tables are ta...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Query TM1 non-numeric measures

I am working on a proof of concept within SPSS Modeler that queries TM1 data, models future expenses, and loads the forecast back into TM1. We are close to finishing the POC, but we need to be able to query non-numeric measures from TM1 to complet...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

SQL Instr function like %substring in IIDR MC

We use IIDR CDC for replication. There are source database columns which contains personal customer information as PAN (personal account number) and sensitive and strictly prohibited to replicate it without encoding due to information protection a...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

User Groups, Folder visibility

Folder visibility Should work the same way as single user privileges. Now if you make a user group - everyone in the group can see all the folders and workbooks (though not the data itself). This makes view cluttered and users belonging to ANY gro...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

cleanup of ER structures if ER was not in use prior to utilizing 'cdr migrate server'

If Enterprise Replication did not exist prior to the execution of cdr migrate server, then the utility should as its last step, at user option, dismantle and remove all Enterprise Replication structures in the background that were created to do th...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DataStage S3 connector to have the ability to ingest fixed width files

At present the AWS S3 connector in DataStage is only able to import de-limited files. In order to ingest fixed width files a workaround has to be used to extract the data from S3 and place it on a file system first so that DataStage can import it....
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Ability to specify "with replacement" random sampling in complex samples

In SPSS complex samples in the Statistics product you can choose to do "With Replacement" random sampling when creating the sampling plan, This option does not appear to be available in the Clementine complex samples implementation. Can we please ...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration