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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add Query Store functionality to Informix and revert to Last Good Plan

Add functionality to Informix similar to SQL Server Query Store. SQL and plans are logged to a system database. Also if a plan gets worse then the server can learn and go back to the previous query plan if still valid. This would be helpful when t...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add ability to print deadlock information

Add ability to print deadlock infomation to the online.log. This should be possible to enable at the session level so if this is enabled for a session then if the session is involved as part of a deadlock the information will be written to the onl...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Provide Management functions over Data Sets

Data Sets are currently stored in the Content Store. Much like what used to exist for My Data Sets, please provide an Admin screen to view and manage Data Sets. Alerts (event studio or other) that will warn an Admin of increases to Data Sets will ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow more than 50 MB for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH sort operations

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH operations that do not use indices for sort are restricted to 50 MB before the system will use temporary space. This limit has remained unchanged for a long time and could be increased quite a lot on a modern system. ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

OpenPages Workflows Should Not Notify Inactive/Disabled Users

Emails being sent to disabled users is a significant security concern for the OP system. Anyone labeled as disabled or inactive should not be sent emails if a group they belong to was selected for notification in a workflow.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Add Explain Support for Queries with DGTTs

When a query in a program uses a DGTT, there is no access path written to the PLAN_TABLE at bind time, and there is no way to see the potential access paths. There needs to be a way to see those access paths in Administration Foundation. Currently...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Message Type Options in “Create Template” should align with Message Domains

Create Template should align with MT and MX Domains, MX Domains should only be visible for MX queues MT Domains should only be visible for MT queues
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 4 Not under consideration

LDAP Authenication for HQ

Allow the option to use LDAP for HQ Authentication. Build the user name in HQ but allow it to use domain authentication. This would also allow HQ to write backups to mapped drives. See Support Case TS007408895 for further details.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Allow APT_EXECUTION_MODE = "One process" for production environments

In our tests we found for small PX jobs the execution is sped up by almost 30% if we set APT_EXECUTION_MODE = One process. Since we have 10000 of such small job invocations in aggregate this saves a lot of time and resources. But according to IBM ...
8 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Allow for Altering the Partitioning Columns Through Panels

When altering the columns involved in partitioning a table, several steps must be done which introduces complexity and potential for errors. This is the current provided solution: Do a GEN on the table and save the generated DDL. Adjust the partit...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration