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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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Lock table (or database) in exclusive mode does not work as expected in HDR

If one attempts to update a table with many rows in an HDR environment with updateable secondary code like this does not work (if you are on the primary):begin work; lock table mytab in exclusive mode; update mytab set col1="xxx" where 1=1; commit...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

UTF8 conversion problem - EBCDIC

Message UTF-8 => After conversion in EBCDIC EBCDIC_STR('Hi, my name is Андрей (Andrei)'); => Hi, my name is \0410\043D\0434\0440\0435\0439 (Andrei) But for the character � (UTF-8 replacement character) the function returns the value X'3F' in...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Need ability to filter Free Text Search returned item attributes

Our users use the Free Text search in Product Master Persona based-UI to find certain items. Currently the item list that FTS returns contains random attributes and it's difficult to see the wanted item from the returned list. Proposed solution: N...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Functionality already exists

Set Report and Dashboard Full Screen as Default view

Allow Developers to set the Default View for Non-Developer Users to Full Screen. At this moment, there's no way of hiding the Appbar or Navbar without modifying the URL 95% of our user base a Consumer Type, they do not need access to see the Bars ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

New “Line Spacing” Option in Rich Text Fields

Add a new option to modify the line spacing in the text of rich text fields.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

CA: Error correcting algorithm for invalid members/MUNs

Hello we would expect having same behavior as planing analytics workspace as using same restapi connector in CA - if an MDX query comes back with members not found - perform a test 'drop bad tuples' query to check all members with parents (aa^bb) ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

GUI for PAW Admin Tool

Any chance of making Planning Analytics Workspace Administration Tool as a permanent GUI or URL, without launching it through PAW ?
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Self-signed certificate or no certificate for compute nodes

This is for Sym 7.3.1 or later versions. We need to have TLS enabled for all the communications in order to run Symphony in AWS securely. All the management nodes and masters will have a proper signed certificate. Communications to mgmt nodes and ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

Intelligent Online Reorg Switch time calculation

In a 24 hour online Db2 environment it can be difficult to complete an online REORG because the VSAM switch phase may fail, due to the activity on the tablespace being too high. The idea is to use the system monitors or a log analyzer tool to look...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Limit maximum number of writer tasks that can be assigned per subscription

We had an incident where one subscription had monopolized most of the writer tasks which caused replication latency for the RMs of all the other subscriptions in that source/target server pair. Therefore, there should be a parm to set a limit for ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 1 Future consideration