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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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DSN1COMP - provide an option to write the output to a table

We have a lot of objects being uncompressed today and where we like to check, if compression would be usefull. Therefore DSN1COMP is a great tool, but it requires us, to check each output manually. That to much effort to do it for all uncompressed...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Update lsf.shared with up-to-date CPU models

The file `lsf.shared` provided with Spectrum LSF is outdated. The CPU models listed seem to be 10 years old and older and there don't seem to be any updates from IBM. I suggest that IBM regularly updates this file with up-to-date CPU models and me...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Backup/Restore GUI within HQ

One of the least enjoyable tasks is to using the archecker utility. Many times we need to restore just a row and/or rows in a table from an ontape backup. Restoring an entire database is easy from the command line. It would be very helpful if HQ c...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Permission model for Dashboards and Reports

In our environment, a few different teams will make use of different reporting capabilities in LSF Explorer in different scopes. Therefore they will be creating different reports and dashboards. So there is the need to introduce something like a p...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Delete data from existing collection

Our signature client the Ministry of Defense likes to have the ability to delete all data from a collection. They are migrating from Watson Explorer Analytical Components (WEX-AC) to WD. In WEX-AC, the 'delete all data' from collection is present,...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Searchable Tree Prompt

Either extend existing Tree Prompt or add a new insertable object that allows for text searching of elements in a tree prompt.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module created from Data Server with multiple alike schema should be able to use any

it should be possible to use any schema that are alike depending on the connection. For exemple if my developpement schema is called DEV and my production schema is called PROD, I am not able to use a datamodule made with DEV for production. Same ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Primary Authid etc. in Plan_Table

Add a column where the userid, jobname and the like can be storred. This column should be NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT USER and accordingly populated by explain.
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

InsteadOF SQL

It is common in the database world (DB2 but all the others I have worked with are the same) to have a separate product installed that generates code and submits it to the database for processing. Eventually, you will encounter SQL that doesn't per...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

In "My schedules and subscriptions," display the current enable/disable status as selected by the user

In My schedules and subscriptions, if you enable/disable the schedule from ... (More), and then Properties or Modify Schedule, the status does not update in the list of schedules/subscriptions. However, when you click ... (More) and then Enable/Di...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration