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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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Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API called Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) (https://r2dbc.io/). The R2DBC driver list includes several DBMS, but not Informix. Customer case: In Huge systems with lots of users se...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Planned for future release

Synchronization dimensions in different workbook using Applications in Planning Analytics Workspace

Front end issues on IBM PAW interface. Synchronization of dimensions in different workbook using applications in IBM PAW. 1) We would like to submit enhancement request. Synchronization of dimensions in all the BOOKS within one application cannot ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Element to Element Compare using substrings

Allow references to specific byte ranges within an attribute for comparison. For example, consider building a counter with the intent of identifying a BIN attack/Credit Master attack/enumeration attack. Generally speaking, these attacks will origi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Add Rename to the more (...) shortcut menu

Many find it difficult to figure out how to rename objects within the CA portal -- whether that is renaming a report, a subscription, a package or whatever. Some of us know how to rename objects but it might be helpful to add a "rename" option on ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier

It is an expected behaviour of the simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier.
9 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration

CLP command shoud read db2dsdriver.cfg

Db2 command line processor (CLP) shoud read the db2dsdriver.cfg (as CLPPlus does) in order to set particular parameter as current application compatiblity or current packageset when you need a different value from the the default. Thanks
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

For each job, records the number of execution host CPU cores in the job's table

As we evaluate the utility of SMT2/4/8, we would like to be able to measure the performance difference of the applications at scale by recording the number of slots of the compute host for every job. This would achieved by adding a tinyint unsigne...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Possibility for the testing capabilities that can be used as other usage than compare monotith Cobol to Java/ Cobol from scratch to monolith cobol

The tools could be used for generating Cobol or Java test set for validating any kind of program, refactored or not with no purpose to Transform them with AI (could be a good point for VsCode because zUnit isn't on it). And if it's possible, compa...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information

insert into table default values

A number of database vendors offer insert into table values() or insert into tables default values;
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration