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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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Set explain on to show time spent on query optimixation.

Set explain on to show time spent on query optimixation. Then we can see which sql could benefit from optimizer hints to reduce cpu usage and improve performance.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve the functionality of the Join stage

Currently when doing a join in DataStage and tyring to achieve the same as e.g. a between in a SQL join, you either have to use the Lookup stage (which has other limitations, is not well documented (according to documentation, the Lookup stage doe...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add AWS RDS for Db2 as a target database for Data Gate on Cloud

Data Gate on cloud available at AWS only syncronize data for Db2 z/OS to a Db2 Warehouse SaaS. The idea is to add AWS RDS Db2 as an target database.
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Hide model components from users authorized only to use lower mandators

In large customers such as payment providers and banks usually setups go by multichannel -> channel -> department/customer. These institutions often want to have their centralized sets of rules and profiles that check the transactions indepe...
6 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

DMC - "Other Waits" detail graphic needs to be dynamic and smarter

DMC v3.1.12 decided to create a fixed bucket named "Other Times" under "Other Waits" main category on Database Time Spent monitor page.. Please see attached screen-shot. In the main graphic, we can see "other Waits" is the most contributor. And in...
6 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Common Customizable Header Above the Dashboard Tabs

At the moment within a dashboard we don't have an out of box option to add a common header on top of the tabs of the dashoard. We should have a common header or also ability to edit to add tab specific conents but the main thing is it should be ab...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Reading xml(amd LOB/CLOB) fields from DB2 transaction logs rather than separate select statements

We noticed on production that if there are xml fields in the table , then CDC don't read from transaction logs , but rather directly sends 'select' queries. Same behavior has been verified by https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-are-lobs-clobs-an...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted