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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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better diagnostic for locale errors

We experience -21005 errors typically during loading data to the database. The error (undocumented) means that at least one character is not supported by database locale. Unfortunately it is not sufficient to correct input data fast: there is no f...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Create join indexes in DB2

Enable to create a join index like SYBASE.. Note that it could be great to join row stored tables with column stored tables.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Missing definition of "Indexable Types" with impact if selected or not on results on C10 Search driven by INDEXING

Hi L3 + PM, can you please improve documentation on what it mean to select certain "Indexable Types" . It is critical to understand if you would select an indexing typ or not as we already unfortunatedly went through a quite cumbersome learning cu...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User Mapping to handle GROUPS

Require to map members of a USER GROUP to a single userThe Groups that are currently used for Fairsharing usage see attachment
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Aggregate activity monitor

Add a table to the activity monitor for aggregating the data by statement text or section
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Change password at first login for OID LDAP

We want end user will change password of his/her log-in when first time logged in Cognos portal.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modeler support for Pivotal HD as a data source

Pivotal HD is introduced in our enterprise.We'll plan to expand Pivotal HD system.We request Modeler to support Pivotal HD as a data source hard.
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Faster TSP recovery

TS recovery is doable but not trusted due to cross TS dependecies and various log related dependencies. A TS recovery is not as isolated as it appers and is complicated at restore time as you then find out all the interdependencies of a TS restore...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

VLDB Strategy for historcal databases using RP for time segmentation

We have many VLDB (100tb) databases that are created in a historical design using RPs. We would like to just backup and restore the latest dates or tablespaces. It a diaster recovery scnario, we would like to restore the latest TS's in a descendin...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

HA for DB2/DPF using disk replication

Many challenges with node recovery. Current BP is to reboot all nodes in the cluster if any one fails. Many cases where db2 agent hangs on restart and requires a node reboot. Would prefer to see disk replication used for HA
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration