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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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Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

LOAD RESUME YES LOG NO support while loading to accelerator

We are using DB2 v10,z/OS v1.13,IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator v4.1 in our environment for both our test and production DW environments. In our DW systems LOAD RESUME YES LOG NO is used for loading some of our tables. In IDAA, in a condition like t...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Multi-Client Manager Change All Clients

When we use the multi-client manager, it only changes the classic clients (Designer, Director and Administrator). We would like it to change all clients including IBM InfoSphere Information Server Console and IBM InfoSphere Information Server Mana...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Variable labels in regression mobile tables (output) as in checked in options

Now variable name used in tables even "labels" setting used in options. Add new checkbox for variable naming for regression tables or make it behavior more general.
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration

Change datatype of uploaded datafile

Change datatype of uploaded datafile After uploaded an uploaded datafile, a column has assigned the wrong datatype. It is string format but must be integer format
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

XML Schema 1.1

DB2 PureXML does not support XML Schema Version 1.1, although it would be very useful. XML Schema Version 1.1 goes far to correct numerous inadequacies in XML Schema Version 1.0 for extensibility of data models in order to meet future needs.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Change behaviour of duplicate entries in Range Lookups

When using a range lookup (range selected on the main stream) when matching e.g. a key column and range of date from/to you may get more than one hit for the key but the range on the date columns will make the lookup unique, in this case you still...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Recognize csv formatted file, even if the file extension is missing/wrong

CSV formatted files are central to inputting data into Cognos Dashboard Embedded. If a user creates or is provided with a file where the extension was left off, or different, Cognos Dashboard Embedded will not allow you to import it (e.g. consider...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Not under consideration

AWS IAM Role Compatibility with S3 Connections

Problem Statement/Pain Points: We work with a government agency who has specific security requirements and we are utilizing Cloud Pak for Data within their environment. They have a need for utilizing S3 Data Connections to resources in AWS GovClou...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

Provide table function that collects DSN1COMP data

For sake of brevity, I will confine this request to DB2 index compression analysis, but it also applies to tablespaces. When have more than 100,000 indexes in our various Production DB2 systems. We want to know which of these indexes are the most ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration