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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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Solution for Awkward-Looking Queries in Views

When we create a view using a sensible-looking query, the database converts it into a version that has lots of extra parentheses and odd-looking table names. Below is an example of one of these converted queries. This is a relatively simple exampl...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Require NODEFDAC as a server side general setup

This is a follow up on RFE 34407.The original request was classified as "Delivered" but I'd say that veridict totally misses the point. The answer provided states that we can use informix.rc file to set the variable. That's true for UNIX. But in t...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

CDC Capture Agent Data Source Db2 requires a functional RACF Userid and Password

In order to establish connectivity to the CDC Capture Agent data source (Db2) on zOS from the CDC Management Console via the CDC Access Server. This requires credentials which are a functional RACF userid and password. If the RACF password for the...
9 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Default will be set to view members only (hierarchy structure on left) to mimic analysis studio

Default will be set to view members only (hierarchy structure on left) to mimic analysis studio
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Kerberos / SSL conflict

When Kerberos is enabled for users it blocks the usage of SSL for users that have local authentication. This is a bug that should be fixed but IBM persists this is working as designed so placing this here as an enhancement request. Enabling kerber...
almost 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 2 Future consideration

Data traffic encryption

When kerberos authentication is enabled there is no way to have data traffic encrypted. Despite the fact that kerberos has that functionality IBM isn't taking advantage of it. Data traffic encryption is a security standard for years so this should...
almost 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Future consideration

OQWT in DSM for Z/OS Query Advisor Enhancement needed

Query Advisor missing obvious SQL predicate datatype inconsistency While researching a production issue in all our production systems with a remote DB2 program, we ran OQT in DSM and found that the QUERY ADVISOR was missing a very obvious and key ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to stop the system from executing reports/jobs/tasks

Ability to stop the cognos environment from executing reports/jobs/tasks in case of database maintainance e.g.Stopping several dispatchers causes us many issues with report executions.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Horizontal scrolling of the dialog window

When you have a deep tree with many child nodes in chain the deeper nodes are hidden in the right part, specially if you have opened the "Try it our" panel.It would be much more convenient to have the ability to scroll horizontally through the dia...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

online alter fragment

make it possible to run alter fragment online
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration