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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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The DataStage Balanced Optimizer does not support range lookups in lookup stage

Jobs that contain lookup stages that contain a range lookup, when optimized do not have SQL generated that enforces the lookup range. Response from IBM Support case (TS001477845) is to open RFE as DataStage is working as intended.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Snowflake Native Functions in FM

Snowflake database native functions are not available by default in FM installations due to that we are not able to use snowflake-related functions in report authoring, we have to only common functions which are limited sometimes. installation und...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Functionality already exists

Silent uninstall of ibm data server runtime client renders in error with db2lswtch

We are having problem when uninstalling IBM Data Server Runtime Client 11.5.7.0 from a script. Install works fine but when uninstalling I use this command from a command window as administrator MSIEXEC /X {9915B73E-D89B-4D1C-89B3-5FEF7978024C} /le...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

PAW Upgrade - automate PAW Content upgrade

Each time PAW is upgraded, the content is not upgraded and there is no automated way for a PAW administrator to do it. This seems strange forcing someone to open and save the object to have it upgraded. In some cases, users aren’t allowed to save ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Online index rebuild

We need command tool in Informix >>-ALTER INDEX--index--REBUILD------------>< | | '-ONLINE-' working like: REBUILD INDEX online utility in DB2 or ALTER INDEX index REBUILD ONLINE in Oracle or REINDEX [INDEX|TABLE] in PostgreSQL
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

OMPE batch reporting does not produce msgs that allow to identify missing IFCIDs that prevent OMPE from producing reports

OMPE batch reporting does not produce msgs that allow to identify missing IFCIDs for certain reports (in this case, there are just msgs that not enough virtual storage is available - FPEU0020E UNABLE TO ALLOCATE VIRTUAL STORAGE. FPEU0100S DGOABLOG...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Group level credential mapping

Information Server admin console or Command line interface does not have a feature to credential map IIS group to engine credentialing ID. Please develop at least CLI command to credential map IIS group to engine user. This would allow all group u...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Advanced Security Option and Infosphere Information Server

This request is to establish a clear definition on what is supported with Oracle Advanced Security Option (OAS) and InfoSphere Information Server. Network level encryption is now available to all Oracle environments to use freely to have secure co...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

OPL solve progress dialog combined objective number format

Small cosmetic issue in OPL solve progress dialog. The number for thecombined objective doesn't have commas for the thousands. Theindividual goal values are formatted correctly. See attachedscreenshot.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Is a defect

Propose VarChar - lenght 20 by default instead of char 5

In IDE, in Data Perspective, when adding a column, propose VARCHAR by default instead of CHAR which is restrictive.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration