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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.

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alter table online when modifying char length without killing the sessions

today my db is accessed through many web server. the main table is frequently modified : char increased and new fields. i had to bounce the engine to remove all the sessions easily.
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability for Life Cycle Manager to save results to a file

Ability for Life Cycle Manager to save results to a file
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Chore status in PAW Task Pane

Using PAW v2.0.43 the status of Chores (enabled or disabled) is not shown in the Chores section of the task pane. I am aware you can tell if they are active by creating a widget or by right clicking them and seeing 'activate/deactivate' from the r...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Federation Support for Microsoft Access Database

Most of the retail customers use MS Access for maitaining small to medium databases and would like us to consider them while developing solutions. Unfortunately DB2 LUW 11.5.7 does not have any federation support for MS Access. We have to do a rou...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Functionality already exists

DB2 enhancement of global transaction processing

We have COBOL batch procedure started on z/OS that gets always abend for SQL error -911 . The Cobol Host program1 does DB2 SP in order to transfer control on MicroFocus COBOL on linux and then return on z/OS by doing another SP call where another ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Data Server Connection Table Count Filter - don't display empty user schemas

Filter schemas listed under Data Server Connections to only display those with objects under to be pulled. There's no sense to list all possible data containers if most of them are empty and just throws a warning. Additionally extraneous entries c...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom shapes to be used in reports as well

Customs shapes can be used in dashboards. Would be nice to have them available in reports as well.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing format in Filter

A list report has been created. Filtered to a numeric field ([paragraph (query)]. [Time]. [Year] = 2013).The filter text has been displayed.The value is displayed with thousands separators.• For the query element [Paragraph (Query)]. [Time]. [Ye...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow disabling automatic Next Extent calculations

Informix automatically doubles the Next Extent size for every 16 extents on a table. This action will continue until an extent is large enough to provide at least 10% free space. On very large, slow-growing tables, this can lead to an incredible w...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

db2move with copy yes option

using db2move to load data in ab HADR enabled database breack the hadr cluster as this command don't support any option to force the use of COPY YES option during load operation., that without any warning or confirmation message.As a consequence, ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration