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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Smart shared memory dumps

Other database products when dumping shared memory including context relevant information. E.g. which partition was being accessed. Contents of last buffer pool page being accesssed.If the buffers pools are massive e.g. hundreds of gigabyes then t...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Align PAW roles with PA Subscriptions

Although the documentation states that an Explorer subscription can only be associated with Consumer role in PAW, in fact turning one user's subscription from User to Explorer in Subscription Management portal does not automatically change the rol...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Pass database hints through cognos

Many databases provides hints to improve the performance of the queries. In recent observation, we saw that when cognos report is running it takes 10-15 mins where as when we run same query at database side (Vertica) with hints it gives output in ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Certify informix 12.10 on RHEL8

NEWS FLASH - the website now shows that 12.10.FC15 is certified on RHEL 8. This should be marked as completed. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/informix-server-system-requirements We need to stay with Informix 12 so that our compiled 4GL will con...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Copy and use full distributed stats available for federation from DB2 LUW to DB2 LUW

We use federation to check audit records on db2 blu and match then to financial record on Peoplesoft. All treatments are executed from financial DB (row organized), and pb is that nicknames do not take into account distributed stats nor colum grou...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Add capability to capture Class 3 (Delay) - PQ SYNCHRONIZATION

Currently QM does not display any information on Class 3 PQ SYNCHRONIZATION. This is needed so the Delay section matches up to PM and DBAs can quicky see why there is such a long elapsed time. Currently there is no way. I am using PM more that QM ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reset an invalidated statement level optimization hint

If a statement level optimization hint was invalidated for whatever reason one has to repeat the whole process to get the same hint again.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Report Output Format data in Audit Package

The report performance is being calculated using Audit package. The performance report will be published to the higher level of management. The report performance should be captured only for the HTML report execution. In the Audit package, there i...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IIS 11.7 Configure the Operations Console to use the ssh program rather than the rsh

Context: IIS on Hadoop is configured by using engine tier on edge node topology. When you run your job on this environment and if you want analyze the performance stats on each worker node then its not available because the communication protocol ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need Control of default Folder order in Workspace

Want certain folders to be the first in the list by default. Right now the newest folders always show up at the top of the page.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration