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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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[PAfE] Application.ScreenUpdating should be restored

Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel enables Application.ScreenUpdating with RefreshBook. It causes significant performance loss with our existing macros. As we have many macros, it is unrealistic to add Application.ScreenUpdating = False in all...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic columns in dynamic reports

Today it is possible to use dynamic reports in Planning Analytics for Excel to create reports with dynamic rows. However it is not possible to also have dynamic columns which I consider to be a major shortcoming, it would be great if this could be...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

optimize the interval fragment

when using interval fragment with date or datetime column, the latest fragment is in the last one, so the performance of the Insert will become slow. if Informix can keep the latest fragment as the first fragment, it will improve the performance o...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

change the bufferpool size online

when I add the new dbspace, the page size is 16 k; Informix add a default bufferpool , I forget to create the bufferpool using onparams firstly, later I found it's too small, can't meet the performance requirement, I found I have no method to chan...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Supress metadata check in ODBC connector

The ODBC connector compares the metadata in DataStage with the metadata in the target system. When there is a mismatch in the metadata, warnings are issued in the DataStage Director log.Please add an option, so this check can be disabled for speci...
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DSN1COMP to allow more than one input per job step

Currently only one full copy image may be included in each job step //jobname JOB acct information//COMPEST EXEC PGM=DSN1COMP,PARM='FULLCOPY'//STEPLIB DD DSN=prefix.SDSNLOAD,DISP=SHR//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A//SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=A//SYSUT1 DD DSN=COPY0...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Missing ability to change default options in run as tab and schedule tab

We are missing option to hide/disable/change default options in schedule tab and ran as tab. These can not be modified as of today, in C10 it was possbile to modify those by changing cognos template files. Today they are not part of the interface ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support for previewing images in Catalogs

As described in IBM documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x?topic=properties-previews#require-data , connected data assets must be structured data in order to be Previewed inside IKC. The only option to preview images i...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to support user-defined SSM boundaries, Client/SSM flow control and error handling mechanism for exceeding limits

IBM Spectrum Symphony product defines hard-coded boundary limits for total number of live sessions (10,000) and total number of live tasks (2500000) to allow users with a guideline to scale their environments. However, there are limitations that i...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Allow changing of S3 Prefix for onbar backups

Scenario is you have 1000+ sites to backup all with the same informix server name. instead of changing the informixserver name you can set prefix on the onpsm backup. this allows for reducing the amount of buckets for this setup in cases where you...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration