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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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Avoid SQL1246N for incremental backup

This sqlcode SQL1246N is send by DB2 during an incremental backup each time a new tablespace has been created and no full backup of this tablespace has been done. It shoud be more interesting to switch automatically for this tablespace from the in...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

AT-TLS configuration assistant

Need to be able to code jobnames with wild cards in beginning or multiple jobnames for one rule
over 8 years ago in Db2 Configuration Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Evaluate using io_uring for I/O in Informix Linux Platform

Create some performance tests and evaluate an architecture change in Informix to migrate AIO or Kernel AIO to using kernel io_uring Maybe it's not possible to use io_uring in Informix and nowadays, performance increase from using IO_DIRECT KAIO to...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add Palette Colors to Widget Text Items and Objects

Add the ability to apply Palettes to Widget Shapes and Text to increase the number of colors available.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Oracle Pluggable database support during installation

Cann't install InfoSphere Information Server without direct port configuration or oracle legacy adjustments(support of SID format) on container database. The internal XMETA database cann't be configured on the pluggable database. Pluggable databas...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

enable more secure algorithm when using ThirdParty CA

When using the customer's CA they want to have all certificate to be at least in sha256 but when using the following procedure we can only use sha1 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.do...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add slicer capability to user-defined in-memory aggrgates for Dynamic Cubes

Slicer capability exists for in-database aggregate definitions within IBM Cube Designer. The same capability for user-defined in-memory aggregates would allow for better control over fine-tuning performance.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Configurability for Gantt Chart Labels

When you create a Gantt Chart on the OpenPages Dashboard, it frequently does not display labels for the X-axis in a useful way. If you take a look at the attached screenshot, the only month names that are displayed are Feb, Nov and Dec for the who...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Datastage pay-as-you-go model (similar to CUH) on Azure

Customer anticipates that they will be utilizing their infrastructure 25% of the year, and need the flexibility to ramp up/down on the number of cores used per event. Client as an organization does not want to pay for the downtime when infrastruct...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Allow auto-save to be turned on/off not only at pipeline level, but also at project level

Many of our users tend to open multiple tabs when editing pipelines and we are concerned that they may be inadvertently overwriting themselves. We'd like the ability to disable auto-save at the project level and not just within a single pipeline.
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Not under consideration